Joan Didion

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

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.

• 1963: Run, River
• 1968: Slouching Towards Bethlehem
• 1970: Play It As It Lays
• 1971: The Panic in Needle Park
• 1976: A Star is Born
• 1983: Salvador
• 1984: Democracy
• 1996: Up Close and Personal
• 2001: Political Fictions
• 2005: The Year of Magical Thinking

• 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

• 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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