Question: What author who wrote "Jesus' Son" beat out Mischa Berlinksi for 2007 National Book Award?
Related documents: [0]  [DOC] Fieldwork is a 2007 novel by American journalist Mischa Berlinski. It was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and was a finalist that year for the National Book Award, eventually losing out to Denis Johnson's "Tree of Smoke". [END] 
[1]  [DOC] Denis Hale Johnson (July 1, 1949 – May 24, 2017) was an American writer best known for his short story collection "Jesus' Son" (1992) and his novel "Tree of Smoke" (2007), which won the National Book Award for Fiction. He also wrote plays, poetry, journalism, and non-fiction. [END] 
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Denis Johnson
Denis Johnson