Joan Didion

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1. Wikipedia: Joan Didion
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3. New York Times:The New York Times - "After Life" (September 9, 2005) 
4. Salon: The Joan Didion Interviews
5. Amazon.com: Joan Didion Books
6. YouTube Video: Joan Didion on Charlie Rose (Time: 57:53)

Joan Didion News and Articles

• Guernica Magazine: Seeing Things Straight (2006)
• New York Magazine: When Everything Changes (2005)
• Guardian: Interview: Joan Didion (2005)
• NPR: Joan Didion, Writing a Story After an Ending (2005)
• The Stranger: The Stealing Never Stops (2005)
• Salon: Didion as Diva (1997)
• Salon: Joan Didion: The Salon Interview (1996)
• The Paris Review: The Art of Fiction No. 71 (1978)  

Joan Didion Background and Profiles

• Wikipedia: Joan Didion Biography
• Encyclopedia of World Biography: Joan Didion Biography
• IMDb: Joan Didion Filmography 
• Seattle Arts and Lectures: Joan Didion Biography
• Academy of Achievement: Joan Didion Profile

Joan Didion Study Guides, Book Reviews, and Literary Criticism

• The New York Times: Joan Didion Book Reviews  
• Find Articles: Didion's Dreamwork (2007)
• SparkNotes: The Year of Magical Thinking Study Guide
• Salon: Political Fictions by Joan Didion (2001)
• Find Articles: The Hollywood Novel: Gender and Lacanian Tragedy in Play It As It Lays (2000)
• University of Pennsylvania:"Joan Didion: Only Disconnect"
• Metroactive Books: Fear of Meaning (1996)

Joan Didion Books and Merchandise

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Joan Didion Photos

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Joan Didion Audio and Video

• YouTube: Joan Didion on Charlie Rose (Time: 57:53)
• YouTube: The Year of Magical Thinking on Broadway (Time: 02:10)
• Wired for Books: Audio Interview with Joan Didion (Time: 37:40)
• NPR: Joan Didion, Writing a Story After an Ending
• NPR: Joan Didion Survives The Year of Magical Thinking (Time: 15:00)
• NPR: Rabid Reader: Joan Didion Where I Was From
• NPR: Morning Edition: Joan Didion

Joan Didion Excerpts

• One House: "On Morality"
• Andie's Web: "On Keeping a Notebook"
• The New York Times: "After Life"
• Seattle Arts and Lectures: From Political Fictions
• Random House: From Where I Was From
• Random House: From The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play
• Random House: From The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion Blogs and Message Boards

• Google Blog Search: Joan Didion
• Salon Blog Post: Slouching from Bethlehem (2003)
• Salon Blog Post: Golden State of Hypocrisy (2003)
• Literary Kicks Blog Post: Overrated Writers Part Two: Joan Didion (2006)
• LiveJournal: Joan Didion Community

Joan Didion Personal Timeline

• December 5, 1934: Born
• 1956: B.A. in English from U.C. Berkeley
• 1956-1964: Worked at Vogue Magazine
• 1964: Married writer John Gregory Dunne
• 1966: Adopted daughter Quintana Roo
• 2003: Husband Dunne died of heart attack
• 2005: Daughter Quintana Roo died
• 2005: Won National Book Award
• 2007: Received National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
• 2007: Received Evelyn F. Burkey Award from Writers Guild of America, East

Joan Didion Publications Timeline

• 1963: Run River
• 1968: Slouching Towards Bethlehem 
• 1970: Play It as It Lays
• 1973-present: Various articles for The New York Review of Books
• 1977: A Book of Common Prayer
• 1979: The White Album  
• 1983: Salvador
• 1984: Democracy
• 1987: Miami
• 1992: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Henry_%28book%29
• 1996: The Last Thing He Wanted
• 2001: Political Fictions
• 2003: Where I Was From
• 2005: The Year of Magical Thinking
• 2006: We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live
• 2007: The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play

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