Dennis Cooper

Dennis Cooper
A white man with graying hair sitting in front of a background decorated with Pride flags. He is wearing a gray button-up open over a gray tee-shirt.
Cooper in 2018
Born (1953-01-10) January 10, 1953 (age 71)
Pasadena, California, U.S.
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • poet
  • critic
  • editor
  • blogger
  • performance artist
Alma materFlintridge Preparatory School
Pasadena City College
Pitzer College
SubjectSexual fantasy, gay desire, existentialism, death, troubled teenagers, drug use, the inadequacy of language
Website
Official website

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."[1] Cooper is the founder and editor of Little Caesar Magazine, a punk zine, that ran between 1976 and 1982.

  1. ^ O'Neill, Tony (4 October 2007). "A good writer as bad as you'll find". Theguardian.com. Retrieved 5 September 2020.