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Photos from the life of Joan Didion, who chronicled California, politics and sorrow in ‘Slouching Towards Bethlehem’ and ‘Year of Magical Thinking.’
Dec. 23, 2021
Books
PEN’s Joan Didion event lacked just one thing: Joan Didion
Oct. 15, 2013
Letters to the Editor
Readers remember their interactions with the late Joan Didion, both with her works and in person.
Dec. 27, 2021
Joan Didion, who died Thursday, left a seismic impact on the literary world and her home state of California.
Dec. 24, 2021
At a memorial service Wednesday for Joan Didion, who died in December, Vanessa Redgrave read, nephew Griffin Dunne remembered and Patti Smith sang.
Sept. 22, 2022
Ava DuVernay, Roxane Gay, Jessica Chastain and Gov. Gavin Newsom are among admirers paying tribute to writer Joan Didion, who died Thursday at age 87.
Seven years ago, Vanessa Redgrave teamed up with Joan Didion on a Broadway adaptation of the latter’s 2005 National Book Award-winning memoir “The Year of Magical Thinking.”
Oct. 21, 2014
PEN Center USA’s 23rd annual literary awards festival went off without a hitch at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Monday night -- except for the small fact that its lifetime achievement award winner, Joan Didion, was not in attendance.
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Nov. 11, 2010
Nearly a year after her death, writer Joan Didion’s belongings went up for auction Wednesday. Buyers paid nearly $2 million collectively for a piece of her legacy.
Nov. 17, 2022