Joan Didion
Joan Didion (/ˈdɪdiən/; December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021) was an American writer. She was born in Sacramento, California. In the 1960s, she released a collection of essays titled Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968). In 1970, she released Play It as It Lays. She was seen as an important writer during the New Journalism period.[1]
Early life
Didion was born on December 5, 1934, in Sacramento, California,[1][2] to Eduene (née Jerrett) and Frank Reese Didion.[1] She received a B.A. in English from University of California, Berkeley, in 1956.[3] Didion wrote her first novel, which was about a woman dying in the Sahara Desert, when she was five years old.[4]
Career
In 1991, she wrote the earliest mainstream media article to suggest the Central Park Five had been wrongfully convicted.[5]
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.[6][7]
In 2017, a Netflix documentary about her career, The Center Will Not Hold, was released.[8]
Personal life
Didion was married to writer John Gregory Dunne from 1964 until his death in 2003. They adopted one daughter, Quintana Roo Dunne.[1]
Didion died from problems caused by Parkinson's disease at her home in New York City on December 23, 2021, at the age of 87.[1]
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Didion at the Brooklyn Book Festival in 2008
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Grimes, William (December 23, 2021). "Joan Didion, 'New Journalist' Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/23/books/joan-didion-dead.html. Retrieved December 23, 2021.
- ↑ Joan Didion Biography and Interview. achievement.orgAmerican Academy of Achievement. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
- ↑ Als, Hilton (Spring 2006). Joan Didion, The Art of Nonfiction No. 1. https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5601/joan-didion-the-art-of-nonfiction-no-1-joan-didion. Retrieved September 14, 2017.
- ↑ 10 Fascinating Facts About Joan DidionMental Floss. Retrieved May 29, 2025.
- ↑ From The Archive: Joan Didion On Hollywood, Her Personal Style & The Central Park 5. British Vogue (February 19, 2020). Retrieved February 19, 2021.
- ↑ Bacharach, Jacob (December 27, 2021). "Joan Didion Cast Off the Fictions of American Politics". The New Republic. https://newrepublic.com/article/164881/joan-didion-cast-off-fictions-american-politics. Retrieved September 13, 2023.
- ↑ Ramos, Santiago. Vanities Come to Dust (in en). Commonweal (February 18, 2022). Retrieved September 13, 2023.
- ↑ Wilkinson, Alissa. Joan Didion is more interesting than the new Netflix documentary about her. Vox (October 25, 2017). Retrieved July 10, 2018.
Other websites
- Official website
- Joan Didion on The California Museum's California Legacy Trails
- The New York Review of Books: Joan Didion
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Joan Didion on IMDb
- Joan Didion, on Enciclopedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc
- Joan Didion, on Open Library, Internet Archive
- Joan Didion, on Goodreads
- Joan Didion, on AllMovie, All Media Network
- Joan Didion, on Internet Broadway Database, The Broadway League
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