No contemporary writer offers perspective like Joan Didion. Hand her an issue, a crisis, an era or event and she’ll return to present her findings in a clean, streamlined form, where context is given, ...

Editor's note: Joan Didion died on Thursday at the age of 87. Read her obituary here. In The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion addressed the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne. The book was ...

The revered journalist and writer died at her home in New York City. Revered journalist and author Joan Didion died Thursday at her home in New York City due to complications from Parkinson's disease, ...

Joan Didion with husband John Gregory Dunne and daughter Quintana Roo Dunne in Malibu, 1976 - John Bryson/Getty Above is a family portrait, taken by the photojournalist John Bryson in 1976. It shows ...

SACRAMENTO – An extraordinary woman with deep Sacramento roots is being celebrated in a new book. "I think she's undefinable, kind of by design. She's just a very brilliant writer in different mediums ...

JOAN DIDION: Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner, and life as you know it ends. The question of self-pity. SCOTT DETROW, HOST: Those four short lines, read there by ...

The New York Public Library is opening up its archives of Joan Didion and her husband Gregory Dunne to the public beginning March 26. The Library acquired the late writers' archives in 2023, just over ...

Reading "Notes to John", Joan Didion's posthumously published book of post-therapy jottings, left me "feeling a little grubby at being privy to such an intrusion", said Catherine Jarvie in The i Paper ...

Joan Didion kept notes of her therapy sessions. In 46 entries dating back to December 1999, she discussed alcoholism, depression, anxiety and the complex relationship with her daughter, Quintana Roo ...

Reading the newly released “Notes to John,” it’s hard not to wonder how the late author Joan Didion would feel about having her personal notes from a series of painful therapy sessions converted into ...

After the deaths of her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and her daughter, Quintana, Joan Didion wrote "Blue Nights," the most personal and poetic book of her career. From 2011, she talks about aging, ...