He is the Resident Playwright of Campo Santo, the resident theater company at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco. Johnson's plays have been produced in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and Seattle. Johnson has a cameo role in the film as a man who has been stabbed in the eye by his wife. Johnson first came to prominence after the publication of his short story collection Jesus' Son (1992), whose 1999 film adaptation was named one of the top ten films of the year by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Roger Ebert. He received a Whiting Writer’s Award in 1986 and a Lannan Fellowship in Fiction in 1993. He holds an MFA degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, where he has also returned to teach. Johnson was born in 1949 in Munich, West Germany. He also writes plays, poetry and non-fiction. Currently-lives in Arizona and Idaho, USĭenis Hale Johnson is an American author who is known for his short-story collection Jesus' Son (1992), his novel Tree of Smoke (2007), which won the National Book Award, his novella, Train Dreams (2011), and The Laughing Monsters (2014).Awards-National Book Award Whiting Writer's Award Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize.Education-M.F.A., University of Iowa, USA.
Where-Munich, Germany (of American parents).It is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert and into a war where the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. Tree of Smoke is the story of William "Skip" Sands, CIA-engaged in Pschological Operations against the Vietcong-and the disasters that befall him.
Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle,, Salon, Slate, National Book Critics Circle, Christian Science Monitor.
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