Denis Johnson - Literacy Volunteers Book Festival

4^th ANNUAL NORTHERN ARIZONA BOOK FESTIVAL

Denis Johnson
Bonner’s Ferry, Idaho

Denis Johnson was born in Munich, Germany, in 1949, and was raised in Tokyo, Manila, and the suburbs of Washington, D.C. He currently lives in northern Idaho. He has published five volumes of poetry and six books of fiction, including his most recent novel, The Name of the World (2000). His collection of short stories, Jesus’ Son (1993), was recently adapted into a film. Since 1984 he has served as a correspondent for The New Yorker, Esquire, Spin, Rolling Stone, and other magazines in Nicaragua, Liberia, Somalia, Afghanistan, and the Persian Gulf. He received his B.A. and MFA from the University of Iowa. He is Playwright-in-Residence for the Campo Santo Theater Group at San Francisco’s Intersection for the Arts, and teaches fiction and poetry at the Texas Center for Writers at the University of Texas in Austin. Among his awards are fellowships from the NEA, the Guggenheim, Whiting, and Lannan Foundations.

Book List

Seek: Reports from the Edges of America and Beyond (March 2001), $23.00, Hardcover, Harpercollins, ISBN: 0060187360 – available in March.

The Name of the World (2000), $22.00, Hardcover, Harpercollins, ISBN: 0060192488 – available.

The Stars at Noon ( reprint edition 2000), $12.00, Paperback, Harperperennial Library, ISBN: 0060976101 – available.

Fiskadoro (reprint edition 2000), $13.00, Paperback, Harperperennial Library, ISBN: 0060976098 – available. (1985) Hardcover, Knopf, ISBN: 0394538390 – out of print.

Already Dead: A California Gothic (1998), $13.00, Paperback, Harperflamingo, ISBN: 006092909X – available.

The Incognito Lounge (1997), $12.95, Paperback, Carnegie-Mellon Univ. Pr., ISBN: 0887481760 – available.

Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millenium General Assembly: Poems Collected and New (1996), $12.00, Paperback, Harperperennial Library, ISBN: 0060926961 – available.

Jesus’ Son (1993) $12.00, Paperback, Harpercollins, ISBN: 0060975776 – available. Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux, ISBN: 0374178925 -- out of print.

Resuscitation of a Hanged Man (1991), $19.95, Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux, ISBN: 0374249490 – back order. Paperback, Penguin USA, ISBN: 0140165223 – out of print.

Angels (1989), $13.00, Paperback, Vintage Books, ISBN: 0394759887 – available.

The Veil, ASIN: 0394743431 – out of print.

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