Awards & Winners

Diane Johnson

Date of Birth 28-April-1934
Place of Birth Moline
(Rock Island County, Illinois, United States of America, Quad Cities)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Novelist, Screenwriter, Essayist
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, Johnson's recent books include Lulu in Marrakech, L'Affaire, Le Mariage, and Le Divorce, for which she was a National Book Award finalist and the winner of the 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, based on the horror novel of the same name 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.

Awards by Diane Johnson

Check all the awards nominated and won by Diane Johnson.

1997


Nominations 1997 »

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National Book Award for Fiction Le Divorce

1988


Nominations 1988 »

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Persian Nights

1984


Nominations 1984 »

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Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Dashiell Hammett

1983


Nominations 1983 »

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Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction Terrorists and Novelists

1979


Nominations 1979 »

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National Book Award for Fiction Lying low

1973


Nominations 1973 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Biography Lesser Lives