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Alicia

This person wrote a letter to an underground newspaper about Ann Arbor in the first story in Let Me Tell You What I Mean.

Rixford K. Snyder

This is the person who was Director of Admissions at the time Joan received a rejection letter from Stanford in "On Being Unchosen by the College of One's Choice."

Nancy Reagan

This person, who was married to the Governor of California at the time, was being observed by both Didion and a news reporter at her home on a Tuesday morning.

Skip Skivington

This person told Joan that his son had been missing in Vietnam since Mother's Day in "Fathers, Sons, and Screaming Eagles."

Ernest Hemingway

This person's letters were published posthumously despite leaving instructions to his executors not to do so in "Last Words."

Robert Mapplethorpe

Didion writes about this photographer of many famous women in "Some Women."

Martha Stewart

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