May 24, 2017, from liver cancer at his home in The Sea Ranch, a community near Gualala, California, at the age of 67. Awards 1981 – National Poetry Series award (selected by Mark Strand), for The Incognito Lounge 1983 – The Frost Place poet in residence 1986 – Guggenheim Fellowship 1986 – Whiting Award 1993 – Lannan Fellowship in Fiction 2002 – Aga Khan Prize for Fiction from The Paris Review, for Train Dreams 2007 – National Book Award, for Tree of Smoke 2008 – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, for Tree of Smoke 2012 – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, for Train Dreams 2017 – Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction (awarded posthumously) Bibliography Novels Angels (Knopf, 1983) Fiskadoro (Knopf, 1985) The Stars at Noon (Knopf, 1986) Resuscitation of a Hanged Man (Farrar, Straus & Giroux [FSG], 1991) Already Dead: A California Gothic (Harper Collins, 1997) The Name of the World (Harper, 2000) Tree of Smoke (FSG, 2007) Nobody Move (FSG, 2009) Train Dreams (FSG, 2011) – a novella first published in The Paris Review [2002] and in Europe [2004] The Laughing Monsters (FSG, 2014) Short fiction Jesus' Son (FSG, 1992) The Largesse of the Sea Maiden (Penguin/Random House, 2018) Poetry The Man Among the Seals: Poems (Stone Wall Press, 1969) Inner Weather (Graywolf Press, 1976) The Incognito Lounge and Other Poems (Random House, 1982) The Veil (Alfred A. Knopf, 1987) The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly: Poems Collected and New (Harper Perennial, 1995) "Last Night I Dreamed I Was in Mexico" (Ploughshares 36.4, 2010, p. 58) "The Trees Leaning into One Another, Green and Horrible" (Ploughshares 36.4, 2010, p. 59) Plays Hellhound on My Trail: A Drama in Three Parts (2000) Shoppers: Two Plays (Harper, 2002) - includes Hellhound on My Trail Des Moines, San Francisco premiere in October 2007 Des Moines, New York premiere in November 2022 Soul of a Whore and Purvis: Two Plays in Verse (FSG, 2012) Screenplays The Prom (1990) (directed by Steven Shainberg) Hit Me (1996) (directed by Steven Shainberg, adapted from the novel A Swell-Looking Babe by Jim Thompson) Nonfiction (contributor) One Man By Himself: Portraits of John Serl (Hard Press, 1995) Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond'' (essays) (HarperCollins, 2001) References External links Denis Johnson Papers at the Harry Ransom Center Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco KCRW Bookworm Interview Profile