Joan Didion is an American writer born in California December 5, 1934. Didion's writing includes work as a journalist, essayist, and novelist. She worked on several screenplays with her late husband, John Gregory Dunne and she now lives in New York City.
Didion has a BA in English from the University of California
Published works[]
Fiction[]
- Run, River (1963)
- Play It As It Lays (1970)
- A Book of Common Prayer (1977)
- Democracy (1984)
- The Last Thing He Wanted (1996)
Nonfiction[]
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968)
- The White Album (1979)
- Salvador (1983)
- Miami (1987)
- After Henry (1992)
- Political Fictions (2001)
- Where I Was From (2003)
- The Year of Magical Thinking (2005)
- We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (2006; includes her first seven volumes of nonfiction)