Joan didion and john

Joan Didion arrived in Los Angeles in 1964 on the way to becoming one of the most important writers of her generation.

In Bed by Joan Didion Three, four, sometimes five times a month, I spend the day in bed with a migraine headache, insensible to the world around me. Almost every day of every month, between these a…

She established a distinctive voice in American fiction before turning to political reporting and screenplay writing. But it was California, her native state, that provided her with her richest material.

Quintana Roo Dunne, John Gregory Dunne, Joan Didion at their Malibu home, 1976. Image: John Bryson

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Joan Didion

Photos from the life of Joan Didion, who chronicled California, politics and sorrow in 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'Year of Magical Thinking.'

Director Griffin Dunne and his aunt, the peerless Didion, just completed a Kickstarter campaign — they got double their request.

Joan Didion arrived in Los Angeles in 1964 on the way to becoming one of the most important writers of her generation.

JOAN DIDION (Dec 5, 1934 – ) US writer. • [Aug. 22, 1972] “Joan, as usual, spoke in that tiny little voice which always seems to me to be a mode of aggression. Or an instrument of it, anyhow, for it must be maddening in the midst of a domestic quarrel. She drinks quite a lot. So does he [John Dunne].” (Christopher Isherwood Diaries: 1970-1983, Vol. 3, 272)