Joan Didion
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born
December 05, 1934
gender
female
place of birth
Sacramento, California, The United States
genre
Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction
about this author
Joan Didion was born in California and lives in New York City. She is the author of five novels and seven previous books of nonfiction.
Joan Didion’s Where I Was From, Political Fictions, The Last Thing He Wanted, After Henry, Miami, Democracy, Salvador, A Book of Common Prayer and Run River are available in Vintage paperback.
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The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion avg rating 3.75 — 14,426 ratings — published 2005 23 editions |
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays by Joan Didion avg rating 4.32 — 2,840 ratings — published 1968 17 editions |
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Play It As It Lays: A Novel by Joan Didion avg rating 3.84 — 2,463 ratings — published 1970 14 editions |
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The White Album by Joan Didion avg rating 4.21 — 1,639 ratings — published 1985 8 editions |
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Where I Was From by Joan Didion avg rating 3.84 — 537 ratings — published 2003 5 editions |
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A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion avg rating 3.86 — 525 ratings — published 1979 9 editions |
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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction by Joan Didion avg rating 4.48 — 300 ratings — published 2006 2 editions |
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Democracy by Joan Didion avg rating 3.74 — 347 ratings — published 1984 11 editions |
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Salvador by Joan Didion avg rating 3.76 — 339 ratings — published 1983 8 editions |
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Run River by Joan Didion avg rating 3.81 — 282 ratings — published 1979 5 editions |
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"I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends."
— Joan Didion (Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays)
— Joan Didion (Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays)
"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
— Joan Didion
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