Dennis Cooper was born on January 10,1953 and is an American novelist, poet, critic, editor and performance artist.
22 Facts About Dennis Cooper
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Dennis Cooper was born in Pasadena, California and raised in Arcadia, the son of Clifford Dennis Cooper, a self-made businessman who was one of the early designers of parts for uncrewed space expeditions.
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Dennis Cooper's parents were politically conservative, with his father acting as an advisor to several presidents, including Richard Nixon, with whom he cultivated a close friendship.
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Dennis Cooper's parents divorced when he was in his early teens.
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Dennis Cooper attended public schools before he started attending Flintridge Preparatory School in high school; he was expelled in 11th grade.
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Dennis Cooper began planning out a five-book series that would later become The George Miles Cycle.
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In 1976, Dennis Cooper moved to London for a brief period.
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Dennis Cooper started Little Caesar Magazine in 1976; the punk zine, which ran for 12 issues between 1976 and 1982, featured multimedia contributions from Andy Warhol, David Wojnarowicz, Debbie Harry, Bob Flanagan, and Toby Ross.
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Dennis Cooper published his first book of poetry, Idols, in 1979 and his second, Tenderness of the Wolves, in 1981.
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Dennis Cooper held this position until 1983, when he moved to New York City.
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Dennis Cooper left New York in 1985 to follow a boyfriend to Amsterdam, where he finished Closer, the first book in the George Miles Cycle and Cooper's first novel.
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Dennis Cooper returned to New York in 1987, where he worked on Frisk and several projects including co-curating an exhibit with Richard Hawkins entitled AGAINST NATURE: A Group Show of Work by Homosexual Men, which was open at the LACE in 1988.
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Dennis Cooper returned to Los Angeles in 1990 and continued collaborating with other artists, including composer John Zorn, painter Lari Pittman, sculptors Jason Meadows and Nayland Blake, and others.
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Dennis Cooper started the Little House on the Bowery curated imprint, which included works from Travis Jeppesen, Richard Hell, James Greer, Trinie Dalton, Derek McCormack, and others, under the independent publisher Akashic Books.
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Dennis Cooper moved to Paris in 2005 and has collaborated with French theater director Gisele Vienne, composers Peter Rehberg and Stephen O'Malley, and the performer Jonathan Capdevielle on six works for the theater, I Apologize, Un Belle Enfant Blonde, Kindertotenlieder, a stage adaption of his novella Jerk, This Is How You Will Disappear, and Last Spring, a Prequel.
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In mid-2016, Dennis Cooper engaged in a two-month standoff with Google after it deleted his blog and Gmail accounts without warning, due to what the company described as unspecified violations of their terms of use policy.
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Ten years of Dennis Cooper's writings were lost, including a novel.
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Dennis Cooper's plight attracted media attention, including from The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Le Figaro, and Die Welt.
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Dennis Cooper's poetry, including the first poem he ever wrote appear in the film Luster as the work of lead character Jackson.
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Miles had deep psychological problems and Dennis Cooper took him under his wing.
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Years later, when Dennis Cooper was 30, he had a brief love affair with the 27-year-old Miles.
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In 2021, Dennis Cooper published I Wished, a sort of coda of the George Miles Cycle, through Soho Press.