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Joan Didion


USA flag (1934 - 2021)
Wife of John Gregory Dunne

Joan Didion was one of America’s most respected writers, her work constituting some of the greatest portraits of modern-day American culture. Over the four decades of her career, she  produced widely-acclaimed journalistic essays, personal essays, novels, non-fiction, memoir and screenplays. Her memoir The Year of Magical Thinking won the National Book Award in 2005.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   Run River (1961)
   Play It as It Lays (1970)
   A Book of Common Prayer (1977)
   Democracy (1984)
   The Last Thing He Wanted (1996)
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Joan Didion recommends
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The Late Great Creature (1971)
Brock Brower
"Wonderful - like a circus with several brilliant performances going on at the same time."

Anthologies containing stories by Joan Didion
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Writing Los Angeles (2002)
A Literary Anthology
edited by
David L Ulin

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