
Person
Dennis Cooper
Writing · Born 1953-01-10 · Pasadena, California, USA
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.
Known for

Room Temperature
Director

Luster
Writer

Like Cattle Towards Glow
Producer

Man at Bath
Robin

Permanent Green Light
Director

Author: The JT LeRoy Story
2016

Jerk
Writer

Frisk
Man in Hall

Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
Self

The Cult of JT LeRoy
Self
Filmography
- 2025Room TemperatureDirector
- 2021JerkWriter
- 2019Permanent Green LightDirector
- 2017Queercore: How to Punk a RevolutionSelf
- 2016Author: The JT LeRoy Story
- 2015Like Cattle Towards GlowProducer
- 2014The Cult of JT LeRoySelf
- 2010Man at BathRobin
- 2009Weak SpeciesNovel
- 2002LusterWriter
- 1996FriskMan in Hall
- 1983Fear of PoetrySelf
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