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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)