Joan Didion

Joan Didion

• Birth:    December 5, 1934
• Death:    December 23, 2021
  
• Nationality:   Sacramento, CA
  
• Education:  University of California, Berkeley, BA in English
  
• Author URL: https://www.thejoandidion.com/
• Books Written
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• Biography

an American writer who launched her career in the 1960s after winning an essay contest sponsored by Vogue magazine. Didion's writing during the 1960s through the late 1970s engaged audiences in the realities of the counterculture of the 1960s and the Hollywood lifestyle.[2] Her political writing often concentrated on the subtext of political and social rhetoric. In 1991, she wrote the earliest mainstream media article to suggest the Central Park Five had been wrongfully convicted. In 2005, she won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography/Autobiography for The Year of Magical Thinking. She later adapted the book into a play, which premiered on Broadway in 2007. In 2017, Didion was profiled in the Netflix documentary The Center Will Not Hold, directed by her nephew Griffin Dunne.    From Wikipedia

Review of Let Me Tell You What I Mean from the APNews

Library of America page

Several good obituaries:

• NPR
• APNews
•  The Guardian
• WTHR - Memorial service
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Fiction

• Run, River (1963)
• Play It as It Lays (1970)
• A Book of Common Prayer (1977)
• Democracy (1984)
• The Last Thing He Wanted (1996)

Nonfiction

• Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968)
• The White Album (1979)
• Salvador (1983)
• Miami (1987)
• After Henry (1992)
• Political Fictions (2001)
• Where I Was From (2003)
• Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11 (2003; preface by Frank Rich)
• Vintage Didion (2004; selected excerpts of previous works)
• The Year of Magical Thinking (2005)
• We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (2006; includes her first seven volumes of nonfiction)
• Blue Nights (2011) ISBN 9780307267672
• South and West: From a Notebook (2017) ISBN 9781524732790
• Let Me Tell You What I Mean (2021)

Screenplays

• The Panic in Needle Park (1971) (with John Gregory Dunne and based on the novel by James Mills)^[47]
• Play It as It Lays (1972) (with John Gregory Dunne and based on her novel)^[48]
• A Star Is Born (1976) (with John Gregory Dunne)^[49]
• True Confessions (1981) (with John Gregory Dunne and based on his novel)^[50]
• Up Close & Personal (1996) (with John Gregory Dunne)^[51]
• As it Happens (2012) (with Todd Field) ^[52]

Plays

• The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) (based on her book)