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Dennis Cooper


Born
in Arcadia, California, The United States
January 10, 1953

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Genre
Gay & Lesbian, Literature & Fiction

Influences
Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Marquis de Sade, Charles Baudelaire ...more


Dennis Cooper was born on January 10, 1953. He grew up in the Southern California cities of Covina and Arcadia.

He wrote stories and poems from early age but got serious about writing at 15 after reading Arthur Rimbaud and The Marquis de Sade. He attended LA county public schools until the 8th grade when he transferred to a private school, Flintridge Preparatory School for Boys in La Canada, California, from which he was expelled in the 11th grade.

While at Flintridge, he met his friend George Miles, who would become his muse and the subject of much of his future writing. He attended Pasadena City College for two years, attending poetry writing workshops taught by the poets Ronald Koertge and Jerene Hewitt. He then attended one year of univer ...more

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Average rating: 3.75 · 37,248 ratings · 7,201 reviews · 111 distinct works • Similar authors
The Sluts
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Closer
3.64 avg rating — 4,975 ratings — published 1989 — 13 editions
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Frisk
3.66 avg rating — 4,421 ratings — published 1991
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Try
3.88 avg rating — 1,783 ratings — published 1994 — 8 editions
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I Wished
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The Marbled Swarm
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My Loose Thread
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Guide
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God Jr.
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Period
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“When I started writing
I was a sick teenaged
fuck inside who partly
thought I was the new
Marquis de Sade, a body
doomed to communicate
with Satan who was us-
ing my sickness as his
home away from home,
and there’s your proof.”
― Dennis Cooper
tags: proof, sickness, writing
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“Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine?”
― Dennis Cooper, The Marbled Swarm
tags: chop-chop
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“Dan thought of love as defined by books, cobwebbed and hidden from view by the past. Too bad a love like that didn't actually exist. In the twentieth century one had to fake it.”
― Dennis Cooper, Closer
tags: 20th-century, love
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