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Joan Didion

6 books · 4 readers

Joan Didion was an American writer and journalist best known for her novels and literary journalism, beginning with essays after winning a Vogue contest in the 1950s. Her second novel, Play It As It Lays, and essay collections such as Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album write about the counterculture, Hollywood and California. Her memoir The Year of Magical Thinking, about the year after her husband's sudden death, won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2005. Didion died in 2021.

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  1. Slouching Towards BethlehemSlouching Towards Bethlehem19681 reader
  2. The White AlbumThe White Album19791 reader
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6 books

1968

  1. Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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1970

  1. Play It as It Lays

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1979

  1. The White Album

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1982

  1. Salvador

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2005

  1. The Year of Magical Thinking

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2011

  1. Blue Nights

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