"He wrote prose with the imaginative concentration and empathy of the poet he was." "Denis was one of the great writers of his generation," FSG's president and publisher, Jonathan Galassi, said in a statement Friday.
His literary agent, Nicole Aragi, confirmed that Johnson died Wednesday of liver cancer. Johnson's publisher, Farrar Straus and Giroux, initially announced that the National Book Award-winning novelist died Thursday, but it later amended the account to say his death came the day before. A protean stylist who made a career of defying readers' expectations, he crafted fiction, poetry and reportage that was often as unsparing as it was unconventional. Denis Johnson, who won the 2007 National Book Award for Tree of Smoke, died Thursday.Ĭindy Johnson/ Courtesy of Farrar, Straus & Girouxĭenis Johnson, the author behind the seminal collection Jesus' Son, has died at the age of 67.
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