In addition to her literary works, she is also known for writing the screenplay of the 1980 film The Shining together with its director and producer Stanley Kubrick.
With filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, Johnson co-authored the screenplay to The Shining (1980), adapted from the horror novel of the same name by Stephen King.
[1] In 2003, Le Divorce, a film adaptation of her 1997 comedy of manners novel of the same name, was released, directed by James Ivory and starred Kate Hudson and Naomi Watts.
In a piece she wrote for the September 2003 edition of Vogue magazine, Johnson said: "I still have a strong memory of Plath's white straw beret, her blonde pageboy and cheerful face.
It was, in fact, the example of "Sunday at the Mintons'," Sylvia Plath's winning story in the Guest Editor contest, that made that point to me and changed my life, though not immediately."
After separating from and divorcing Johnson, in 1968 she married John F. Murray, a physician who became chief of pulmonary and critical care at San Francisco General Hospital.