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- Born: December 5, 1934
- Birthplace: Sacramento, California
- Literary Genre: Non-Fiction, Fiction, Screenplays
- Awards: National Book Foundation Medal and National Book Award
- Spouse: John Gregory Dunne
- Known for her essays on Southern California
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Joan Didion is an American novelist, journalist, and essayist. Her most recent work The Year of Magical Thinking was a financial and critical success. It was also adapted as a Broadway play starring Vanessa Redgrave
Career
Joan Didion began her career writing essays about her home state, California. As their popularity grew, she branched out and wrote novels and more essays about the political culture of the late 1960s and 1970s. Didion also wrote several screenplays with her husband of over 40 years John Gregory Dunne, including the 1976 remake of A Star is Born. After Dunne's death Didion wrote her most personal work The Year of Magical Thinking which chronicled her grieving period after sudden loss of her spouse and occasional writing partner.-
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Joan Didion on Amazon
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The White Album - $14.00
First published in 1979, The White Album is a mosaic of the late sixties and seventies. It includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personalities, the dark journey...Amazon
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Play It As It Lays: A Novel - $13.00
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spa...Amazon
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The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play - $12.00
“this happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won’t when it happens to you . . .”In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling m...Amazon
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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (Everyman's Library) - $30.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Joan Didion’s incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elega...Amazon
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The Year of Magical Thinking - $14.95
From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage...Amazon
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Joan Didion Questions
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Who will win The Apprentice? Joan Rivers or Annie Duke? Finale (new time): Sun 8/7c May 10, 2009 3 AnswersI think that Annie Duke's going to put the smackdown on Joan Rivers. That's Annie Duke's job - if you play poker, you pretty much have to be ruthless unless you... read more -
What ever happened to Joan Lunden? 1 AnswerJoan Lunden has become a spokesperson for healthy living as well as surrogacy. She is also spending a great deal of time raising her children, including twins ... read more -
Whatever happened to Joan Armatrading? 1 AnswerJoan Armatrading is still recording, here's her discography: Discography: * Delux Edition Into The Blues - 2008 (DVD) * Into The Blues - 2007 * Live: All The ... read more -
Whats is Joan Crawford's real name? 1 AnswerJoan Crawford's birth name was Lucille Fay LeSueur. read more
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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
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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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"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see & what it means. What I want & what I fear.” - Joan Didion
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I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear - Joan Didion
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"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs." ~Joan Didion
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Acreditar que um Deus onipotente se voltou contra mim significaria me atribuir uma importância exagerada. (Joan Didion)
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There is always one thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out. -- Joan Didion, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"
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