The Year of Magical Thinking, an autobiographical memoir by Joan Didion, showcases her experiences after the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne. She struggles with accepting the reality of his death as well as the illness of her daughter Quintana, who must be taken to the hospital due to a massive brain hemorrhage. Joan travels with Quintana to Quintana’s home in New York to help her recover and, in the process, discovers she is finally finding the ability to move on with her life.
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Although she is perhaps best known as a precise and graceful essayist, Joan Didion (born 1934) has also triumphed as a novelist and, with her husband, as a screenwriter.Joan Didion was born December 5...
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Joan Didion was born on 5 December 1934 to Frank Reese and Eduene (Jerrett) Didion, a family whose roots in California's Central Valley go back five generations. She was raised in Sacramento as an Epi...
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Ever since she first appeared on the literary scene in the early 1960s, Joan Didion has been identified as a California writer. Although her heart belongs to the provincial Sacramento of her girlhoo...
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Joan Didion told an interviewer in 1992 that she "started out thinking things were pretty coherent. Then I was surprised when they weren't. I decided I better tell people." Didion tells stories of dis...
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Biography Essay"Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world." These lines and the William Butler Yeats poem from which they come hold a special fascination for J...
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Joan Didion
Joan Didion