Dennis Cooper

1953 -

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

country of citizenship: United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: Pasadena City College, Pitzer College

occupation: poet, novelist, journalist, publisher, writer, performance artist, critic, blogger, film director

award received: Lambda Literary Award

influenced by: Marquis de Sade, William S. Burroughs, Arthur Rimbaud, Robert Bresson

official website: www.dennis-cooper.net

Dennis Cooper (born January 10, 1953) is an American novelist, poet, critic, editor and performance artist. He is best known for the George Miles Cycle, a series of five semi-autobiographical novels published between 1989 and 2000 and described by Tony O'Neill "as intense a dissection of human relationships and obsession that modern literature has ever attempted." Cooper is the founder and editor of Little Caesar Magazine, a punk zine, that ran between 1976 and 1982. Source: Wikipedia (en)