Dennis Cooper

Dennis Cooper

Actor · Director · Producer · Writer

Pasadena, California, USA
January 10, 1953

Biography

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dennis Cooper, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Representative Works

Room Temperature
Room Temperature
5.8
/ English
Man at Bath
Man at Bath
5.1
/ French
Luster
Luster
5.6
/ English
Frisk
Frisk
4.2
/ English
Jerk
Jerk
4.0
/ French
Weak Species
Weak Species
5.4
/ English
Fear of Poetry
Fear of Poetry
No Rating Yet
/ English

Awards and Honors

Critical Favorites

Room Temperature
2025Nominee

Best Director

Room Temperature

Man at Bath
2010Nominee

Best Performance

Man at Bath

Luster
2002Nominee

Best Writing

Luster

Career Highlights

Frisk
1996Highlight

Best Performance

Frisk

Jerk
2021Highlight

Best Writing

Jerk