1. Joan Didion - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Joan Didion (born December 5, 1934) is an American writer, known as a journalist, essayist, and novelist. Didion contributes regularly to The New York http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Didion

Joan Didion From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Joan Didion (born December 5 ) is an American writer, known as a journalist, essayist, and novelist. Didion contributes regularly to The New York Review of Books . According to a 1979 New York Times review of Didion's book, "The White Album," reviewer Michiko Kakutani wrote, "Novelist and poet James Dickey has called Didion 'the finest woman prose stylist writing in English today.'" With her late husband, writer John Gregory Dunne , she collaborated on several screenplays. She lives in New York City Contents Biography Awards Published works Fiction ... edit Biography Didion was born in Sacramento, California and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1956 with a BA in English. Much of Didion's writing draws from her life in California, particularly during the 1960s as the world in which she grew up "began to seem remote." Her portrayals of conspiracy theorists, paranoiacs, and sociopaths are now considered part of the canon of American literature citation needed She adopted a culturally conservative stance; her early career being spent as a Goldwater conservative and writing incisive articles in William Buckley's

2. The Salon Interview: Joan Didion Joan Didion s new novel, The Last Thing He Wanted, is her first in 12 years. Set in 1984, it centers on Elena McMahon, an American journalist who gets http://www.salon.com/oct96/didion961028.html

BY DAVE EGGERS J Some things that you probably know but if not will be helpful in enjoying this interview: Didion is married to John Gregory Dunne, and has been for a long time. When she says "we," he makes "we." Though she no longer writes the sort of personal-social essays that made up books like "The White Album" and "Slouching Towards Bethlehem," she still contributes journalism and critical essays to magazines like The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. In person she is very small. She is also graceful, personable, warm and funny. With "The Last Thing He Wanted," I read that you weren't sure how it was going to turn out until you were finished with it. For example, one of the first things I had started with in this book was the idea of this woman walking off a campaign. Because I'd covered some campaigns in '88 and '92, I wanted to use some of that sense of a campaign. So then, I didn't know, then she would go to Miami to see her father. Then, I couldn't figure out where she'd been. Then I decided she ought to be from Los Angeles and had been married to someone in the oil business. That kind of gave me a fresh start. But then I was having to get her from Los Angeles to being a political reporter, right? It was a really hard thing to do. It was also a lot of fun. There were certain chapters where it does sound like you're starting from scratch almost, when you start hearing about Elena's dreams, for example.

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var britAdCategory = "literature"; Already a member? LOGIN Encyclopædia Britannica - the Online Encyclopedia Home Blog Advocacy Board ... Free Trial Britannica Online Content Related to this Topic This Article's Table of Contents Joan Didion Print this Table of Contents Linked Articles John Gregory Dunne National Book Award Shopping New! Britannica Book of the Year The Ultimate Review of 2007. 2007 Britannica Encyclopedia Set (32-Volume Set) Revised, updated, and still unrivaled. New! Britannica 2008 Ultimate DVD/CD-ROM The world's premier software reference source. Joan Didion Page 1 of 1 born Dec. 5, 1934, Sacramento, Calif., U.S. American novelist and essayist known for her lucid prose style and incisive depictions of social unrest and psychological fragmentation. Didion graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1956 and then worked for Vogue magazine from 1956 to 1963, first as a copywriter and later as an editor. During this period she wrote her first novel, Didion, Joan...

5. Literary Kicks : Overrated Writers, Part Two: Joan Didion Joan Didion is a skillful and smart writer. But I ve always considered her a quintessentially cold author, the epitome of the jaded, detached modernist. http://www.litkicks.com/OverratedDidion

Literary Kicks Opinions , Observations and Research We're incredibly proud of this book, the first anthology of LitKicks writings including selections from our poetry and fiction boards. The book was listed as a top poetry pick for 2004 by about.com. Bob Holman states that LitKicks has "found a new way to make an anthology open, free, and eternally interesting." The best way to buy a copy is on Amazon or visit this page to buy the book directly from us. Overrated Writers, Part Two: Joan Didion by Levi Asher June 6, 2006 5:04 am FICTION NEWS OVERRATED WRITERS Call it sacrilege ... I just can't get behind this Joan Didion craze. She wins the second position on the LitKicks Overrated Writers List of 2006. Joan Didion is a skillful and smart writer. But I've always considered her a quintessentially cold author, the epitome of the jaded, detached modernist. I once tried hard to read her most acclaimed novel, Play It As It Lays , because somebody told me it was great. I couldn't get to first base with this book. The sentences were sharp and the transitions were slick, maybe too slick, because my attention kept glancing off the brushed-steel surface of Didion's gleaming prose. It was all cool anomie, all tone and attitude. Here's a typical passage from

6. Joan Didion Joan Didion. George P. Landow. From Chapter Two, The Symbolical Grotesque . Grotesque Symbols and Symbolical Grotesques Carlyle http://victorianweb.org/genre/ej/2d2.html

Joan Didion George P. Landow From Chapter Two, "The Symbolical Grotesque" Grotesque Symbols and Symbolical Grotesques: Carlyle The History of the Grotesque Ruskin's Definition of the Grotesque The Religious Origins of the Grotesque Discovered Grotesques Amphibious Popes, 7-Foot Hats Ruskin, Gold, and Death Lawrence's Landscape Emblems Invented Grotesques Carlyle, Midas, and Enchantment Ruskin's Goddess of Getting-on Ruskin's Narrative Grotesque Arnold's Barbarian, Philistine, and Populace ... Thoreau's Visionary Satire Twentieth-Century Grotesques Joan Didion Tom Wolfe's Put-Together Girl Germaine Greer's Put-Together Girl Note: indicates a link to material not in the original print version. Like Mailer , Didion chooses particularly grotesque phenomena as Signs of the Times. And like Carlyle, she reveals both the representative and grotesque qualities of a religious figure as part of her knife thrust at the heart of the age. In "James Pike, American" she presents a lapsed Episcopalian bishop as her predecessor presents the amphibious pope that is, as the embodiment of the grotesque spiritual ills of the age. She finds him, first of all, "a character so ambiguous and driven and revealing of his time and place that his gravestone in the Protestant Cemetery in Jaffa might well have read only JAMES PIKE, AMERICAN" ( White Album , 53). Pike Represents to Didion modern amorality, for this once-bishop of California was a man who, she emphasizes, felt himself bound to no oath and no responsibility. For example

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This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Joan Didion Born: 5-Dec Birthplace: Sacramento, CA Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Author, Screenwriter Nationality: United States Executive summary: Slouching Toward Bethlehem Father: Frank Reese Didion (d.) Mother: Eduene Jerrett Didion (d.) Brother: Jimmy Husband: John Gregory Dunne (author, m. 30-Jan-1964, d. 30-Dec-2003, heart attack) Daughter: Quintana Roo Dunne Michael (b. 1966, d. 26-Aug-2005, pancreatitis) High School: C.K. McClatchy Senior High School, Sacramento, CA (1952) University: BA English, UC Berkeley (1956) The New Yorker The New York Review of Books Vogue 1956-63 Copywriter and editor New Perspectives Quarterly Advisory Board National Review Book Reviewer Academy of Achievement American Academy of Arts and Letters American Academy of Arts and Sciences Nervous Breakdown Risk Factors: Smoking Multiple Sclerosis Depression Author of books: Run River , novel) Slouching Towards Bethlehem , essays) Play It as It Lays , novella) A Book of Common Prayer , novella) The White Album , essays) Salvador , nonfiction) Democracy , novella) After Henry , essays) The Last Thing He Wanted , novella) Political Fictions , essays) Do you know something we don't?

8. Seattle Arts & Lectures - Joan Didion Joan Didion (b. 1934) was born and raised in Sacramento, California, a fifth generation Californian. Didion’s greatgreat-great grandmother traveled to the http://www.lectures.org/didion.html

Novelist, Essayist, and Journalist Benaroya Hall, Tuesday, September 25, 2001 Biography Excerpt Selected Works Links Biography As an undergraduate English major at the University of California, Berkley, Didion won an essay prize sponsored by Vogue magazine. As a result, Vogue hired her, and for eight years she lived in New York City, eventually becoming an associate features editor at the magazine. She published her first novel, Run River, in 1963 and in the same year married the writer John Gregory Dunne. In 1964 the couple returned to California, where they remained for twenty-five years. Slouching Toward Bethlehem (1968) and The White Album (1979). Since then she has written several novels and collection of essays and has contributed to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. In her book Political Fictions Didion analyzes the American political process, examining developments which occurred between the 1988 and 2000 elections. In these eight essays, several of which have appeared in The New York Review of Books

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10. Joan Didion — KCRW 89.9 FM | Next Generation Internet Radio For Music, Arts In this conversation, Joan Didion explores the possibility that writing about her husband s death and her daughter s illness was an essential activity, http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw060126joan_didion

var portal_url='http://www.kcrw.com'; Select a channel to listen online: Live Music News HOME ... Joan Didion Search KCRW Joan Didion mydate=new Date('Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0800');mydate=fdDateWithOffset(mydate);document.write( mydate.formatDate('D M j, Y')); Listen to/Watch entire show: Listen The Year of Magical Thinking (Knopf) How does a writer handle personal tragedy? In this conversation, Joan Didion explores the possibility that writing about her husband's death and her daughter's illness was an essential activity, enabling her to both grieve and mourn. Read an excerpt from the book Digg del.icio.us Facebook Technorati StumbleUpon Host Michael Silverblatt Bookworm Michael Silverblatt is the guy authors go to when they want a serious literary conversation about their writing, because Michael reads everything they’ve ever written, often surprising the authors with insights about their work that they themselves hadn’t realized. Air Date Live: var outstr=fdTimeAirings(["Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0800"],["Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:30:00 -0800"],"M j Y"); document.write(outstr); A CD copy of Bookworm is available by calling 888-600-5279.

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Joan Didion From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search Joan Didion (born December 5 ) is an American writer renowned as a novelist, journalist and prose stylist. edit Unsourced A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image. Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do. Readers Digest, Quotable Quotes Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price. The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream. Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before? We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

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15. Open Source » Blog Archive » A Conversation With Joan Didion Joan Didion’s new book, The Year of Magical Thinking, she says, was an attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months that cut loose “any fixed idea I http://www.radioopensource.org/a-conversation-with-joan-didion/

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17. NPR: Joan Didion, Writing A Story After An Ending joan didion s memoir The Year of Magical Thinking is about grieving for her husband, fellow writer John Gregory Dunne. He died suddenly at the end of 2003, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4956088

18. JOAN DIDION ONLY DISCONNECT When I am asked why I do not find joan didion appealing, I am tempted to answer not entirely facetiously that my charity does not naturally extend http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/103/didion-per-harrison.html

From Off Center: Essays by Barbara Grizzutti Harrison JOAN DIDION: ONLY DISCONNECT (October, 1979) I chose first, for no particular reason, to read an essay from Slouching Towards Bethlehem, "Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream." In this essay, Didion reports, or purports to report, on the murder case of one Lucille Maxwell Miller, who was convicted by the State of California of having killed her husband by dousing him with gasoline and allowing him to burn to death while he slept in a Volkswagen she had been driving. Until I sat down to write this essay, I could not, in fact, remember whether Lucille Maxwell Miller had been convicted or acquitted. Now, unlike the heroines of Didion's fiction, I do not regard memory as an affliction; I remember. I remember in part because I have no choice, but also in part because (unlike Didion's heroines, whose fate depends less upon memory and volition than upon selective amnesia), I believe that without memory there is no civilization. To complain ("I am so tired of remembering things") of remembering is to express a wish to be dead, to return to some pre-Edenic state in which good and evil, right and wrong, do not exist. It is a wish to erase not only one's personal painful past but our collective past which, in turn, is an invitation to believe that we cannot, individually or collectively, affect the present or the future. No; in fact, her subject is always herself.

19. Joan Didion On Losing Husband John Dunne And Daughter Quintana Roo joan didion on John, Quintana, her devastating memoir, and her persistent critics. http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/books/14633/

New York Magazine The Word Skip to content , or skip to search Home This Week's Magazine Cover Archive ... Skip to content , or skip to search Search: Entire Site Restaurants Events Hotels Stores Search: Entire Site Restaurants Events Hotels Multimedia Stores Guaranteed Lowest Price! Subscribe Today! Give a Gift Welcome, UserName Edit Profile Log Out You are not logged in Log In Register Feature When Everything Changes Joan Didion on John, Quintana, her devastating memoir, and her persistent critics. Add a Comment Comment Add Yours Comments ... Add Yours By Jonathan Van Meter Published Oct 2, 2005 (Photo: Brigitte Lacombe) A s we sit down in the living room in her big, bright apartment on East 71st Street, Joan Didion places cut orchids on the glass coffee table between us. It is a gorgeous, crisp day and all of the windows are open. Didion has always looked too thin, the definition of frail, and today is no different, but it’s a relief to see that she isn’t as grim and hollow-eyed as she looked in Eugene Richards’s photographs in The New York Times Magazine that morning. There is something in her step, in the way she moves around the apartment—answering the phone (“If John were here he would say, ‘Who took the fucking pens?’ ”), getting us bottles of Evian, jumping up to fetch a book, grabbing an orange pashmina because, as she says, “it turned fall today”—that suggests there is a lot of life left in her at 70. She is, as has always been obvious from her writing, a lot tougher than she looks.

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