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.jpg) Didion in 1970 | |
| Born | December 5, 1934 Sacramento, California, U.S. |
| Died | December 23, 2021 (aged 87) New York City, U.S. |
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| Education | University of California, Berkeley (BA) |
| Period | 1956–2021 |
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| Literary movement | New Journalism[1] |
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| Children | Quintana Roo Dunne |
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Joan Didion (/ˈdɪdiən/; December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021) was an American writer and journalist. She is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe.[2][3][4]
Didion's career began in the 1950s after she won an essay contest sponsored by Vogue magazine.[5] Didion wrote essays for The Saturday Evening Post, Life, Esquire, The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. Her writing during the 1960s through the late 1970s engaged audiences in the realities of the counterculture of the 1960s, the Hollywood lifestyle, and the history and culture of California. Didion's political writing in the 1980s and 1990s concentrated on the subtext of political rhetoric and the United States's foreign policy in Latin America.[6][7] In 1991, she wrote the earliest mainstream media article to suggest the Central Park Five had been wrongfully convicted.[5] In 2005, Didion won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for The Year of Magical Thinking, a memoir of the year following the death of her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne. She later adapted the book into a play that premiered on Broadway in 2007. In 2013, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal by president Barack Obama.[8] Didion was profiled in the Netflix documentary The Center Will Not Hold, directed by her nephew Griffin Dunne, in 2017.
- ^ Menand, Louis (August 17, 2015). "The Radicalization of Joan Didion". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Archived from the original on November 7, 2017. Retrieved October 31, 2017.
"Slouching Towards Bethlehem" is a classic of what was later named the New Journalism.
- ^ Heller, Nathan (December 23, 2021). "What Joan Didion Saw". The New Yorker. Retrieved May 23, 2023.
- ^ "Joan Didion, peerless prose stylist, dies at 87". AP News. December 23, 2021. Retrieved May 23, 2023.
- ^ Kirkpatrick, Emily (December 23, 2021). "Joan Didion, Literary Titan, Dies at 87". Vanity Fair. Retrieved May 23, 2023.
- ^ a b "From The Archive: Joan Didion On Hollywood, Her Personal Style & The Central Park 5". British Vogue. February 19, 2020. Archived from the original on February 19, 2021. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
- ^ Bacharach, Jacob. "Joan Didion Cast Off the Fictions of American Politics". The New Republic. Retrieved September 13, 2023.
- ^ Ramos, Santiago. "Vanities Come to Dust". Commonweal. Retrieved September 13, 2023.
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