Joan Didion

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Gender	Female
Death	2 years ago
Date of birth	December 5,1934
Zodiac sign	Sagittarius
Born	Sacramento
	California
	United States
Spouse	John Gregory Dunne
Children	Quintana Roo Dunne
Height	152 (cm)
Job	Journalist
	Screenwriter
	Novelist
	Essayist
	Memoirist
Education	University of California, Berkeley
	C. K. McClatchy High School
Movies/Shows	New York in the Fifties
	Up Close and Personal
	Shotgun Freeway
	True Confessions
	A Star Is Born
	Play It as It Lays
	Such Good Friends
	The Panic in Needle Park
	The Last Thing He Wanted
Awards	National Book Award for Nonfiction
	Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
	St. Louis Literary Award
	Evelyn F. Burkey Award
	American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism
	Ambassador Book Award for American Studies
	Clifton Fadiman Medal For Excellence In Fiction
Died	Manhattan
	New York
	United States
Parents	Eduene Didion
	Frank Reese Didion
Date of died	December 23,2021
Date of Reg.	2019-02-20 23:32:25
Date of Upd.	2023-07-16 17:27:39
ID	436938

Blue Nights
Where I Was From
A Book of Common Prayer
Run, River
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live
South and West: From a Notebook
After Henry
Political Fictions
Democracy
The Last Thing He Wanted
Miami
Salvador
Sentimental Journeys
Fixed ideas
Vintage Didion
Insider Baseball: From Political Fictions
Live and Learn
Telling stories
Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations
Collected Essays: Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, and After Henry
Course of Empire: Paintings
Companionship in Grief: Love and Loss in the Memoirs of C. S. Lewis, John Bayley, Donald Hall, Joan Didion, and Calvin Trillin
Paix' to hopōs paei
The Year of Magical Thinking
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Play It as It Lays
The White Album

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Joan Didion Life story

Joan Didion was an American writer. She is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe. Didion's career began in the 1950s after she won an essay contest sponsored by Vogue magazine.

Joan Didion: US literary icon dies at 87

Dec 23,2021 9:16 pm

...Joan Didion, a literary icon who chronicled 60s and 70s US culture, with screenwriting credits including 1976 film A Star Is Born, has died aged 87...