Biography

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.

She graduated from Stephens College and in the early 1950's she began her writing career contributing to several magazines such as Mademoiselle and Vogue. In 1965, she wrote her first novel "Fair Game". Other novels include "Loving Hands at Home" (1968), "Burning" (1971), "The Shadow Knows" (1974), Lying low (1978), Persian Nights (1987) - for which she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize -, Health and Happiness (1990), Le Divorce (1997) (which was adapted into James Ivory's film The Divorce (2003)), Le Mariage (2000), L'Affaire (2003), Lulu in Marrakech (2008) and most recently Lorna Mott Comes Home (2021).

She married twice and has four kids from her first marriage; her second husband passed away on 2020 due to Covid-19 complications.