All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

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.