If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.

S. National Book Award for Fiction. Biography
Johnson was born in 1949 in Munich West Germany.

National Book Award for Fiction. Denis Hale Johnson (born 1949) is an American author who is known for his short-story collection Jesus' Son (1992) and his novel Tree of Smoke (2007) which won the U. He also writes plays poetry and non-fiction.