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Diane Johnson (born Diane Lain, April 28, 1934), is an American novelist and essayist whose satirical novels often feature American heroines living in contemporary France. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Persian Nights in 1988.
Apr 24, 2024 · Diane Johnson (born April 28, 1934, Moline, Illinois, U.S.) is an American writer and academic who first garnered attention for worldly and satiric novels set in California that portrayed contemporary women in crisis. She later wrote a series of books about Americans living abroad.
Jun 28, 2021 · “We know a lesser life does not seem lesser to the person who leads one,” wrote the novelist and critic Diane Johnson in 1972. “His life is very real to him; he is not a minor figure in it.” This...
Diane Johnson has 110 books on Goodreads with 51442 ratings. Diane Johnson’s most popular book is Le Divorce.
Perhaps best known as an essayist and biographer, she got her start as a novelist and continues to write successfully in this vein. She is a teacher and scholar with expertise in nineteenth–century literature, yet she also lent a hand in writing the screenplay for The Shining, a popular horror film.
Diane Johnson is an American born novelist and essayist whose satirical novels often contain American heroines living abroad in contemporary France. Born in Moline, Illinois, Johnson's recent books include L'Affaire (2004), Le Mariage (2000), and Le Divorce (1997) for which she was a National Book Award finalist and the winner of the California ...
Diane Johnson is a writer whose works bridge the gap between literary and popular fiction. Born Diane Lain in Moline, Illinois, she lived in the same house throughout her...
Diane Johnson is an American author, essayist and screenwriter best known for movie audiences as Stanley Kubrick's writing partner in Stephen King's adaptation of The Shining (1980), which became a horror classic over the years with plenty of memorable moments and unforgettable lines.
Apr 30, 1996 · Diane Johnson. 2.95. 4,832 ratings420 reviews. This delightful comedy of manners and morals, money, marriage, and murder follows smart, sexy, and impeccably dressed American Isabel Walker as she lands in Paris to visit her stepsister Roxy, a poet whose marriage to an aristocratic French painter has assured her a coveted place in Parisian ...
Jul 11, 2021 · At 87, Diane Johnson shows no signs of slowing down. She’s just published her 11 th novel, Lorna Mott Comes Home (Knopf, June 29), and if you’ve read Le Divorce, Le Mariage, and L’Affaire, you’ll have guessed that Lorna is leaving France to move back to California.
