Denis Johnson
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Emerging from a peripatetic childhood that spanned Munich, the Philippines, Japan and the Washington, D.C. suburbs, he earned a B.A. in English from the University of Iowa in 1971 and an M.F.A. at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1974, where Raymond Carver was among his mentors. His literary debut arrived with the poetry collection The Man Among Seals (1969), followed by a fellowship from the Arizona…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources