Joan Didion (1934-2021) was the National Book Award-winning author of many works of fiction and nonfiction. After earning a Bachelor's degree in English at the University of California, Berkeley, she started her literary career writing articles and essays for Vogue, Mademoiselle, Life, The Saturday Evening Post, and National Review, establishing herself as a prominent member of the New Journalism movement. Her books include The White Album, Play It As It Lays, and Slouching Towards Bethlehem.
Shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, Didion's revelatory memoir The Year of Magical Thinking was adapted as a one-woman stage show starring Vanessa Redgrave on Broadway. She also wrote several screenplays with her husband John Gregory Dunne, including Panic in Needle Park with Al Pacino, the second remake of A Star is Born with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, and an adaptation of her own Play It As It Lays with Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins.
"In her portraits of people, Didion is not out to expose but to
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nor glamorous, but alive and botched and often mournfully
beautiful.... A rich display of some of the best prose written
today in this country." --Dan Wakefield, The New York Times Book
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A slant vision that is arresting and unique...Didion might be an
observer from another planet--one so edgy and alert that she ends
up knowing more about our own world than we know ourselves. --Anne
Tyler The story between the lines of Slouching Towards Bethlehem is
surely not so much 'California' as it is [Didion's] ability to make
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