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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 , Truman Capote , Norman Mailer , Hunter S. Thompson , and Tom Wolfe .
With the publication of The White Album, Didion had established herself as a prominent writer on Californian culture. As critic Michiko Kakutani stated, "California belongs to Joan Didion." [1] The title of the book comes from its first essay, "The White Album", which was chosen as one of the 10 most important essays since 1950 by Publishers ...
Through the Window, Out the Door: Women's Narratives of Departure, from Austin and Cather to Tyler, Morrison, and Didion. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
Didion bridged the world of Hollywood, journalism and literature in a career that arced most brilliantly in the realms of social criticism and memoir. Joan Didion, masterful essayist, novelist and ...
Joan Didion, the author revered for her coolly dispassionate essays and novels such as “Play It as It Lays,” has died, her publisher confirmed to The New York Times on Wednesday. She was 87.
What we learned by rereading Joan Didion's ruthlessly honest "Goodbye to All That," the quintessential essay about leaving New York.
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But any parent will tell you that raising a human being is a game-changer, one that not only shifts the way we see ourselves, but also the way we see the world.Joan Didion, the 87-year-old ...