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    Joan Didion (/ˈdɪdiən/; December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021) was an American writer and journalist. She is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism...
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  • Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold is a 2017 documentary film about Joan Didion and her work. The film was released by Netflix on October 10, 2017....
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  • This is a list of works by and on American author Joan Didion. Run, River (1963) ISBN 978-0679752509 Play It as It Lays (1970) ISBN 978-0374529949 A Book...
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  • ways. In the late 1950s, he met Joan Didion in New York City, where she was an editor at Vogue. In a 2005 interview, Didion recalled, "We amused each other...
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    writer, and actor. He is also a nephew of writers John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion. Raised in Los Angeles, Dunne attended the Fay School in Southborough...
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  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem (category Essay collections by Joan Didion)
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem is a 1968 collection of essays by Joan Didion that mainly describes her experiences in California during the 1960s. It takes...
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  • Play It as It Lays (category Novels by Joan Didion)
    Play It as It Lays is a 1970 novel by American writer Joan Didion. Time magazine included the novel in its list of the "100 Best English-Language Novels...
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    The Year of Magical Thinking (category Books by Joan Didion)
    The Year of Magical Thinking is a memoir by Joan Didion, accounting of the year following the death of her husband John Gregory Dunne in 2003. Published...
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  • Frank Perry from a screenplay by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, based on the 1970 novel of the same name by Didion. The film stars Tuesday Weld and...
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  • The White Album (book) (category Essay collections by Joan Didion)
    The White Album is a 1979 book of essays by Joan Didion. Like her previous book Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album is a collection of works...
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  • Run, River (category Novels by Joan Didion)
    Run, River is the debut novel of Joan Didion, first published in 1963. The novel is both a portrait of a marriage and a commentary on the history of California...
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  • Blue Nights (category Books by Joan Didion)
    author Joan Didion, first published in 2011. The memoir is an account of the death of Didion's daughter, Quintana, who died in 2005 at age 39. Didion also...
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  • film directed by Dee Rees, based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Joan Didion, from a screenplay by Rees and Marco Villalobos. The film stars Anne...
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  • Let Me Tell You What I Mean (category Essay collections by Joan Didion)
    Let Me Tell You What I Mean is a collection of essays by Joan Didion published on January 26, 2021. It was her last published book before her death on...
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  • life insurance policy pay double the face value for accidental deaths. Joan Didion wrote a 1966 essay about the case, "Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream"...
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  • screenwriter Joan Didion, had completed a script, and Paul Schrader was originally intended to revise the screenplay and direct. However, Didion ultimately...
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  • Didion is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Joan Didion (1934–2021), American writer John Didion (1947–2013), American football player...
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  • romantic drama film directed by Jon Avnet from a screenplay written by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne. It stars Robert Redford as a news director and...
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  • (in his first lead role) and Kitty Winn. The screenplay was written by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, adapted from the 1966 novel by James Mills. The...
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  • lecturer in Economics at the SOAS South Asia Institute. She considers Joan Didion and Michael Ondaatje her favourite literary heroes. She was born in Colombo...
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  • A Book of Common Prayer (category Novels by Joan Didion)
    A Book of Common Prayer is a 1977 novel by Joan Didion. A limited signed edition of this book was issued by Franklin library. The novel is a story of...
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  • Miami (book) (category Books by Joan Didion)
    nonfiction book of social and political analysis by Joan Didion. The book is based on three extended essays Didion published in The New York Review of Books between...
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  • when WASP fashion ruled stores and fashion magazines. To writers like Joan Didion, Peck & Peck was descriptor and shorthand for a certain fashion look...
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  • Salvador (book) (category Books by Joan Didion)
    nonfiction book by Joan Didion on American involvement in the Salvadoran Civil War. Most of the book is based on three extended essays Didion published in The...
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  • Dunne (1932–2003), a screenwriter and a critic who married the writer Joan Didion. The brothers wrote a column for The Saturday Evening Post and they also...
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    2014-01-14. Ricks 1980. Didion 1979. Lodge 1980, p. 27. Nicholl 1979, p. 14. Kaminsky 1985, p. 203-226. Goodman 1982. Didion, Joan (October 7, 1979). "'I...
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    Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc [ʒan daʁk]; Middle French: Jehanne Darc [ʒəˈãnə ˈdark]; c. 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as...
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    book, Sweat, a history of exercise, was published in 2022. Hayes lists Joan Didion, Diane Arbus, and Susan Sontag as literary influences. After learning...
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  • After Henry (book) (category Essay collections by Joan Didion)
    After Henry is a 1992 book of essays by Joan Didion. All but two of the essays of this book are reprinted in We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live:...
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    and bags. For her 2015 ad campaign, Juergen Teller photographed writer Joan Didion. For Céline’s Spring/Summer 2017 collection, Philo worked with artist...
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