Diane Johnson’s most recent books include Flyover Lives: A Memoir (2014), Lulu in Marrakech (2007), 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 Book Awards gold medal for fiction. She has also won The Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; The Los Angeles Times Seidenbaum Award. 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). She is also the author of other books, including the novels Persian Nights, Health and Happiness, Lying Low, The Shadow Knows, and Burning (all available in Plume editions). In 2003 a movie version of her comedy of manners novel Le Divorce was released, directed by James Ivory.
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