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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.
- Susan Stamberg
4 days ago · Joan Didion, American novelist and essayist known for her lucid prose style and incisive depictions of social unrest and psychological fragmentation. Her notable books included the short novel Play It as It Lays and the memoir The Year of Magical Thinking.
- 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...
Jan 7, 2022 · We're going to listen back to portions of two of our interviews with journalist, novelist and screenwriter Joan Didion, who died last month at the age of 87. Known for her cool, unsentimental...
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