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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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    The Year of Magical Thinking (category Books by Joan Didion)
    The Year of Magical Thinking (2005), by Joan Didion (1934–2021), is an account of the year following the death of the author's husband John Gregory Dunne...
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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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  • 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 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • (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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  • 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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  • South and West (category Works by Joan Didion)
    is a 2017 non-fiction book authored by Joan Didion, with a preface by Nathaniel Rich. It is based on notes Didion took while traveling in Mississippi, Alabama...
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  • song midway, "All-American Bitch" was inspired by an essay written by Joan Didion that used the titular words. Its lyrics are about the societal expectations...
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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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    Retrieved 2014-01-14. Ricks 1980. Didion 1979. Lodge 1980, p. 27. Nicholl 1979, p. 14. Goodman 1982. Didion, Joan (October 7, 1979). "'I Want to Go Ahead...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • Democracy (novel) (category Novels by Joan Didion)
    Democracy is a 1984 novel by the American author Joan Didion. Set in Hawaii and Southeast Asia at the end of the Vietnam War, the book tells the story...
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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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  • 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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