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Joan Didion

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.Photo by David Shankbone (David Shankbone) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons.

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Birth date: December 05, 1934

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

Joan Didion's Books

The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion

Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion

Play It as It Lays - Joan Didion, David Thomson

A Book of Common Prayer - Joan Didion, Oscar Liebman

Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature - Elizabeth Hardwick, Joan Didion

The Paris Review Interviews, I - Joan Didion, Jorge Luis Borges, Dorothy Parker, Truman Capote, Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, Robert Stone, Kurt Vonnegut, Saul Bellow, Robert Gottlieb, Philip Gourevitch, Elizabeth Bishop, The Paris Review, Rebecca West, Richard Price, Billy Wilder, Jack Gilbert, James M

We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (Everyman's Library) - Joan Didion, John Leonard

Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11 - Joan Didion, Frank Rich

Essays & Conversations (Ontario Review Press Critical Series) - Joan Didion, Ellen Friedman

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Ceilidh-Tripping the write fantastic rated it

6 years ago

text Living and Dying

So, I've been off BL for a long, long time. A lot has happened, I got pregnant and had a daughter. My mom got sick and passed away. I had to clear out and sell my childhood home and all the contents while trying to balance all of that and my full time job. It's been...something. For a while, not l...

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EpicFehlReader rated it

6 years ago

text The Year Of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later–the night before New Year's Eve–the Du...

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philoSophie rated it

7 years ago

text Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Η Joan Didion με δεινή πένα και υπηρετώντας το ιδανικό του "See enough and write it down" καταγράφει το σημείο που τέμνεται ο περιβάλλων χώρος και το ανθρώπινο μυαλό και περιγράφει με ζωντάνια και με σαφή αντίληψη της βαρύτητας της περιρρέουσας ατμόσφαιρας την Καλιφόρνια και τη Νέα Υόρκη, μεταξύ άλλ...

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JeffreyKeeten rated it

9 years ago

text PLAY IT AS IT LAYS BY JOAN DIDION

“There was silence. Something real was happening: this was, as it were, her life. If she could keep that in mind she would be able to play it through, do the right thing, whatever that meant.”Whenever Maria called, it was as if the ringing of the phone heralded the end of any conviviality I might ha...

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pedestrienne rated it

9 years ago

text The White Album

my enjoyment of this depended on how much I agreed with whatever joan didion was writing about, with a boost from my love of the excellent cover design. These are personal essays, so they don't really attempt a balanced opinion, more like the conversation of a smart friend who doesn't let you talk a...

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