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Award-winning Iowa City author dies

Lang 6/3/26 An award-winning author from Iowa City has died. Tim Johnston, who broke onto the literary scene in 2015 with the New York Times bestselling novel Descent, died on May 26th atth4 Bird House hospice home at the age of 63 from brain cancer. By the time he published Descent in 2015, Johnston had already won numerous literary accolades, including the O. Henry Award and the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. Descent tells the s…
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The Mighty 1630 KCJJ broke the news on Thursday, June 4, 2026.
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