Diane Johnson





Diane Johnson

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born
April 28, 1934 in The United States

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Diane Johnson (born April 28, 1934) 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 Book Awards gold medal for fiction.



Average rating: 3.08 · 5,726 ratings · 802 reviews · 46 distinct works
Le Divorce
2.7 of 5 stars 2.70 avg rating — 2,452 ratings — published 1997 — 18 editions
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Le Mariage
2.96 of 5 stars 2.96 avg rating — 488 ratings10 editions
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Lulu in Marrakech
2.48 of 5 stars 2.48 avg rating — 496 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions
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L'Affaire
2.79 of 5 stars 2.79 avg rating — 390 ratings — published 2003 — 13 editions
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Persian Nights
3.15 of 5 stars 3.15 avg rating — 153 ratings5 editions
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Into a Paris Quartier
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions
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The Shadow Knows
3.49 of 5 stars 3.49 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1974 — 7 editions
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Lying Low
3.13 of 5 stars 3.13 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1978 — 6 editions
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Dashiell Hammett
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1983 — 8 editions
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Health and Happiness
2.97 of 5 stars 2.97 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions
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September 2008, Diane Johnson
"Rather more directly than usual, though I think of all my novels — and maybe all novels — as political in some sense. My immediate interest was engaged by living part of the year in France, where there is a large Muslim population" ...More

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“Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.”
Diane Johnson

“It didn't seem fair that you could not prevent being the object of other people's emotions, you were not safe from their hate--or from their love, for that matter. You were never safe from being invaded by their feelings when you wanted only to be rid of them, free, off, away.”
Diane Johnson

“Men are generally more law-abiding than women. Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them. ”
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