Taken from the collection’s titular, autobiographical essay, Didion’s section on The Doors accomplishes an evocative example ...

The question haunting Joan Didion's "Notes to John" is whether such a private person would have wanted her intimate, unedited reflections (including parental doubts) to be shared with readers. (Cal ...

The much anticipated, first-ever sale of personal effects from famed, late writer Joan Didion’s estate concluded today with Hudson-based Stair Galleries, whose live auctioneers fielded bids from both ...

Joan Didion leans against her Corvette Stingray, a cigarette perched between her fingers. Her unsparing, unsmiling gaze seems to sear through the lens of photographer Julian Wasser’s camera, and one ...

I came late, let me admit it, to the novels of Joan Didion. For too long, I considered them if not an afterthought then an ancillary line of work. Such a perception is hardly uncommon; the essays are ...

In a 1939 essay, the critic Philip Rahv argued that there have been two main types in American literature: the solemn and semi-clerical, which he associates with Henry James, and the exuberant, ...

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, ...

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CANNABIS PRODUCTS ARE NOT IMPACTED. WELL, TONIGHT, SACRAMENTO CITY COLLEGE, HONORING THE LATE AUTHOR JOAN DIDION. DIDION WAS BORN IN SACRAMENTO IN 1934. SHE WAS A STUDENT AT THAT COLLEGE, AND THE ...

I will confess that early last week, in an act of deadline avoidance disguised as research, I spent hours lurking at the auction of Joan Didion’s estate organized by Stair Galleries in New York, ...

In November 1999, writer Joan Didion started seeing Roger MacKinnon, a New York psychiatrist, on the recommendation of the psychiatrist who was treating her daughter Quintana for borderline ...