Denis Johnson, acclaimed author of ‘Jesus’ Son,’ dies

NEW YORK — Denis Johnson, the prize-winning fiction writer, poet and playwright best known for his surreal and transcendent story collection “Jesus’ Son,” has died at age 67.

Mr. Johnson’s honesty, humor and vulnerability were intensely admired by readers, critics and fellow writers, some of whom mourned him on Twitter.

The story collection “The Largess of the Sea Maiden,” his first since “Jesus’ Son,” is scheduled to come out January from the Penguin Random House imprint Dial Press.

[...] as related by a recovering addict with an unprintable name (his initials were F.H.), the stories had an underlying sense of connection, possibility and unknown worlds.

Mr. Johnson also had strong ties to the San Francisco theater world, collaborating on several plays with Intersection for the Arts and Campo Santo, its resident theater company.