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Joan Didion


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

Died
December 23, 2021

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction


Joan Didion was born in California and lived in New York City. She was best known for her novels and her literary journalism.

Her novels and essays explore the disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos, where the overriding theme is individual and social fragmentation. A sense of anxiety or dread permeates much of her work.

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Average rating: 3.96 · 446,599 ratings · 40,894 reviews · 105 distinct works • Similar authors
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
4.19 avg rating — 57,909 ratings — published 1968 — 55 editions
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Play It As It Lays
3.91 avg rating — 53,329 ratings — published 1970 — 65 editions
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Blue Nights
3.90 avg rating — 34,573 ratings — published 2011 — 72 editions
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The White Album
4.09 avg rating — 30,924 ratings — published 1979 — 35 editions
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
3.86 avg rating — 12,164 ratings — published 2021 — 21 editions
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Where I Was From
3.87 avg rating — 4,812 ratings — published 2003 — 10 editions
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A Book of Common Prayer
3.80 avg rating — 4,703 ratings — published 1977 — 20 editions
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Democracy
3.84 avg rating — 3,134 ratings — published 1984 — 37 editions
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Run River
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“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
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“Grammar is a piano I play by ear.”
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“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
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