- Diane Johnson
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Diane Johnson (born April 28, 1934) is an American-born novelist and essayist whose satirical novels often feature American heroines living abroad in contemporary France.
Born in Moline, Illinois, Johnson's recent books include Lulu in Marrakech (2008), L'Affaire (2003), Le Mariage (2000), and Le Divorce (1997) for which she was a National Book Award finalist and the winner of the California Book Awards gold medal for fiction.
She has been a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books since the mid 1970s. With filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, Johnson co-authored the screenplay to The Shining (1980) based on the horror novel of the same name written by Stephen King.
In 2003, a movie version of her comedy of manners novel Le Divorce was released, directed by James Ivory and starring Kate Hudson and Naomi Watts.
Johnson currently divides her time between homes in Paris and San Francisco.
External links
- The Writing Life: By Diane Johnson - washingtonpost.com
- The Dollar's Down. But We're Not Out. By Diane Johnson - washingtonpost.com
- La vraie Française By Diane Johnson - Telegraph
- Diane Johnson at the Internet Movie Database
- Diane Johnson Collection at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin
- Diane Johnson author page and archive from The New York Review of Books
Categories:- American expatriates in France
- American novelists
- American satirists
- Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- People from Moline, Illinois
- People from San Francisco, California
- People from Paris
- Writers from California
- Writers from Illinois
- 1934 births
- Living people
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