Joan Didion (born December 5, 1934) is an American writer, known as a journalist, essayist, and novelist. Didion contributes regularly to "The New York Review of Books". With her late husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, she collaborated on several screenplays. She lives in New York City. Didion was born in Sacramento, California and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1956 with a BA in English. Wikipedia
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Joan Didion's latest nonfiction work, The Year of Magical Thinking , has won effusive praise since its release in early October and now the title has won the 70-year-old writer her first National Book Award. www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2005/11/17/Arts/US_bookawa...
A little more than a month before her 40th wedding anniversary, Joan Didion's beloved husband -- novelist John Gregory Dunne -- died unexpectedly. Didion has written a book about his death, The Year of Magical Thinking. www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4866010
DIDION I have been getting a very strong emotional response to Magical Thinking . But its not a crazy response; its not demanding. www.parisreview.org/viewinterview.php/prmMID/5601
