Sandy Johnson

"Car Crash While Hitchhiking" is a work of short fiction by the American writer Denis Johnson based on a real incident in Johnson's life. The story was first published in The Paris Review in 1989 and collected in the 1990 edition of The Best American Short Stories, which was curated by Richard Ford. Later, "Car Crash While Hitchhiking" served as the opening story in Johnson's short story collection Jesus' Son in 1992.