# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/denis-johnson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:34:19.434Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/denis-johnson"
name: "Denis Johnson"
slug: "denis-johnson"
description: "Denis Hale Johnson was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet. He is perhaps best known for his debut short story collection, Jesus' Son (1992). His most successful novel, Tree of Smoke (2007), won the National Book Award for Fiction. Johnson was twice shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Altogether, Johnson was the author of nine novels, one novella, two books of short stories, three collections of poetry, two collections of plays, and one book of reportage. His final work, a book of short stories titled The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, was published posthumously in 2018. Ted Geltner's biography of the writer, Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures, appeared in late 2025."
tagline: "American writer (novel, drama, poetry, essay) (1949-2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Oliver_Mark_-_Denis_Johnson%2C_Berlin_2003.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-07-01"
deathDate: "2017-05-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.35
  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.44316533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0424941"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump