![]() ![]() ![]() And I remember him once saying, well, I can dream these novels up in a day, but it takes me months to write them. JONATHAN GALASSI: He started out as a poet, and then he started writing novels. ![]() Johnson may have gotten the most attention for his prose, Galassi says, but he wrote with the empathy of a poet. Galassi worked with Johnson on some of his best-known books - his story collection "Jesus' Son," his Vietnam War novel "Tree Of Smoke" which won the National Book Award and his novella "Train Dreams" which was a finalist for the Pulitzer. LYNN NEARY, BYLINE: Johnson, says Farrar, Straus and Giroux publisher Jonathan Galassi, is a writer's writer. He died of cancer on Wednesday at the age of 67. Denis Johnson won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The literary world is mourning the death of a man who has been called one of the greatest writers of his generation. ![]()
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