---
name: "Diane Johnson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/diane-johnson"
fi1m_id: "diane-johnson"
imdb_id: "nm0424956"
tmdb_id: 10404
wikidata_id: "Q533343"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "28 April 1934"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:28:50.537451+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Diane Johnson

## Identity

Diane Johnson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/diane-johnson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** diane-johnson
- **IMDb ID:** nm0424956
- **TMDB ID:** 10404
- **Wikidata ID:** Q533343
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Johnson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q533343, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0424956/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10404

Writer. Born 28 April 1934 in Moline, Illinois, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 28 April 1934, Moline, Illinois, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Johnson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q533343, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0424956/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10404

## Biography

Diane Johnson is an American novelist, essayist and screenwriter. Born Diane Lain on 28 April 1934 in Moline, Illinois, she attended Stephens College in Missouri.

She is the author of novels including *The Shadow Knows* (1974), *Persian Nights* (1987) – a Pulitzer Prize finalist – and *Le Divorce* (1997). In 1980 she co-wrote the screenplay for Stanley Kubrick’s film *The Shining* with the director. A film adaptation of *Le Divorce* was released in 2003, directed by James Ivory.

Johnson has also written essays and contributed to publications such as *The New York Review of Books*. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Shining* (1980), Fi1m 88, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-shining.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Le Divorce* (2003), Writer
- *The Shining* (1980), Screenplay — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-shining.md)

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