Joan Didion
Joan Didion was born in 1934 in Sacramento, California, into a family whose roots in the state stretched back to the era of wagon trains. She won a writing contest sponsored by Vogue magazine during her senior year at the University of California, Berkeley, and moved to New York to work at the magazine, where she remained for eight years. In 1964, she married the writer John Gregory Dunne, and together they moved to Los Angeles, where they collaborated on screenplays and raised their adopted daughter, Quintana Roo. This author hub collects 2 works in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Year of Magical Thinking.
Start with The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, ranked #354 in the Canon Compass list.
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Joan Didion's unflinching memoir of grief after the sudden death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne.
Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays is a spare, devastating portrait of a woman unraveling in 1960s Hollywood.