"Diane Johnson" is an American-born novelist and essayist whose satirical novels often feature American heroines living abroad in contemporary France.

She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Persian Nights in 1988.

Born in Moline, Illinois/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/California Book Award gold medal for fiction. Her memoir Flyover Lives was released in January 2014.

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 (film)/The Shining (1980), based on the horror fiction/horror novel of the same name by Stephen King.

In 2003, Le Divorce, a film adaptation of her comedy of manners novel of the same name, was released. It was directed by James Ivory (director)/James Ivory and starred Kate Hudson and Naomi Watts.

Johnson currently divides her time between homes in Paris and San Francisco.

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I told him, the kids and I are leaving, ... And I wanted him to come, and he said he was going to stay.

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I saw a white T-shirt and a blond head on the other side of the tree and honked the horn for about 10 seconds.

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I don't know why in the world you would want to turn Cream Ridge into suburbia. I tell people it's the best kept secret in New Jersey.

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I will miss being involved in the daily happening of young people and having the opportunity to see them mature.

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A chaplain is trained to talk to anybody of any faith, not to become the patient's minister. My own religion doesn't need to enter the conversation. I'm there as a friend; I'm there for the patient.

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But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.

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We have kids who are following the race in Italy, Australia, in Iceland, just everywhere. It's really exciting.

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This is the first time it's been together. It's a big deal to us.

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A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen.

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