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Joan Didion (/ ˈ d ɪ d i ən /; December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021) was an American writer and journalist. She is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism , along with Gay Talese , Hunter S. Thompson , and Tom Wolfe .
Explore the life and work of Joan Didion, a journalist, novelist, memoirist, essayist, and screenwriter who wrote about culture, politics, literature, family, and loss. Find her books, quotes, news, archive, and more on this website.
Dec 23, 2021 · Joan Didion was born on Dec. 5, 1934, in Sacramento to Frank and Eduene (Jerrett) Didion. She was a fifth-generation Californian descended from settlers who left the ill-fated Donner party in 1846 ...
Dec 23, 2021 · Writer Joan Didion, whose 'electric anxiety' inspired a generation, has died at 87. Author Joan Didion poses for a portrait in her New York apartment on Sept. 26, 2005. American novelist ...
- Susan Stamberg
May 27, 2024 · Joan Didion (born December 5, 1934, Sacramento, California, U.S.—died December 23, 2021, New York, New York) was an American novelist and essayist known for her lucid prose style and incisive depictions of social unrest and psychological fragmentation. Didion graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1956 and then worked for ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Apr 28, 2024 · The Joan Didion many people know is constructed from a few artifacts the real writer left behind when she died in 2021.There’s her much-imitated (and sometimes parodied) 1967 essay “Goodbye to ...
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Dec 23, 2021 · Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne in 1972. Frank Edwards/Archive Photos/Getty Images Within two years of Didion’s husband’s death, her daughter died at 39 after years of illnesses and injuries.
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