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Joan Didion


Born
in Sacramento, California, The United States
December 05, 1934

Died
December 23, 2021

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

Influences
Ernest Hemingway, George Eliot, Henry James


Joan Didion was an American writer and journalist. 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. Over the course of her career, Didion wrote essays for many magazines, including The Saturday Evening Post, Life, Esquire, The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. Her writing during the 1960s through the late 1970s engaged audiences in the realities of the counterculture of the 1960s, the Hollywood lifestyle, and the history and culture of California. Didion's political writing in the 1980s and 1990s often concentrated on the subtext of political rhetoric and the United Stat ...more

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Play It As It Lays
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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The White Album
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Blue Nights
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
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A Book of Common Prayer
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Where I Was From
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“Grammar is a piano I play by ear.”
― Joan Didion, Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations
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“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
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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
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