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Joan Didion

(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.

Awards: LA Times (2005) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction

New and upcoming books

November 2024

Joan Didion: Memoirs & Later Writings

April 2025

I Write to Find Out What I Am Thinking

Novels

   Run River (1961)
   Play It as It Lays (1970)
   A Book of Common Prayer (1977)
   Democracy (1984)
   The Last Thing He Wanted (1996)

Collections

   Vintage Didion (2004)
   Joan Didion: The 1960s & 70s (2019)
   Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (2021)

Series contributed to

Last Interview
Joan Didion: The Last Interview (2022)

Non fiction show

Omnibus editions show

Books containing stories by Joan Didion

American Christmas Stories (2021)
edited by
Connie Willis

Writing Los Angeles (2002)
A Literary Anthology
edited by
David L Ulin

Florida Stories (1993)
Tales from the Tropics
edited by
John Miller and Kirsten Miller

Awards

2005 Robert Kirsch Award

Award nominations

	1984 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee) : Democracy
	1977 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (nominee) : A Book of Common Prayer

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