Tree of Smoke

Twenty-five years in the making, a dark, indelible epic of the American empire in decline from the author of Jesus' Son, "one of the best and most compelling novelists in the nation" (Elle)

The New York Post - Andrew Hubner

Johnson is an author who has captured the zeitgeist of American experience as surely as Twain, Hemingway or Ellison.

Denis Johnson is the author of five novels, a collection of poetry and one book of reportage. He is the recipient of a Lannan Fellowship and a Whiting Writer's Award, among many other honors for his work. He lives in northern Idaho.