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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 .
Joan Didion was a journalist, novelist, memoirist, essayist, and screenwriter who wrote some of the sharpest and most evocative analyses of culture, politics, literature, family, and loss. She won the National Book Award in 2005 for The Year of Magical Thinking.
Dec 23, 2021 · Joan Didion, whose mordant dispatches on California culture and the chaos of the 1960s established her as a leading exponent of the New Journalism, and whose novels “Play It as It Lays” and “A...
Dec 23, 2021 · American novelist, journalist and essayist Joan Didion died on Thursday at her home in New York at age 87 from Parkinson's disease, according to Knopf publicist Paul Bogaards.
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.
Apr 28, 2024 · Like the screenplay version she and Dunne later wrote, Didion’s novel is a bleak tale of a melting-down actress in a tumultuous 1960s Hollywood. But of her five novels, the best is “Democracy ...
Dec 23, 2021 · Acclaimed American writer Joan Didion, an essayist and novelist who rose to prominence in the 1960s, has died at age 87, her publisher confirmed to CNN on Thursday.
