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Arts > Writers > USA > Joan Didion 1934-2021
Joan Didion in 2005.
Photograph: Kathy Willens Associated Press
Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87 She established a distinctive voice in American fiction before turning to political reporting and screenplay writing. But it was California, her native state, that provided her with her richest material. NYT December 23, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/23/
Ms. Didion in 1979.
Her attraction to trouble spots, disintegrating personalities and incipient chaos came naturally.
Photograph: Associated Press
Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87 She established a distinctive voice in American fiction before turning to political reporting and screenplay writing. But it was California, her native state, that provided her with her richest material. NYT December 23, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/23/
Joan Didion in the 1970s
Didion’s elegant style and interest in fashion, fostered at Vogue, saw her revered as a a symbol of “cool”.
Photograph: Mary Lloyd Estrin Everett
Literary legend Joan Didion - a stylish life in pictures Didion, who has died aged 87, emerged as part of the ‘New Journalism’ generation of writers in the 1960s and won acclaim for her essays, plays and novels.
Her personal style also made her an influential
figure in the world of fashion
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https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2021/dec/23/
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Star quality … Joan Didion, c1977.
Photograph > Cropped version: Everett/REX/Shutterstoc
California cool and Magical Thinking: Joan Didion at 86 G Mon 8 Feb 2021 07.00 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/feb/08/
Joan Didion at home in Malibu in 1972.
Photograph: Henry Clarke Conde Nast/Getty Images
Literary legend Joan Didion - a stylish life in pictures Didion, who has died aged 87, emerged as part of the ‘New Journalism’ generation of writers in the 1960s and won acclaim for her essays, plays and novels.
Her personal style also made her an influential
figure in the world of fashion
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https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2021/dec/23/
Joan Didion 1934-2021
She established a distinctive voice in American fiction before turning to political reporting and screenplay writing.
But it was California, her native state, that provided her with her richest material.
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Ms. Didion came to prominence with a series of incisive, searching feature articles in Life magazine and The Saturday Evening Post that explored the fraying edges of postwar American life.
California, her native state, provided her with her richest material.
In sharp, knowing vignettes, she captured its harshness and beauty, its role as a magnet for restless settlers, its golden promise and rapidly vanishing past, and its power as a cultural laboratory.
“We believed in fresh starts,” she wrote in “Where I Was From” (2003), a psychic portrait of the state. “We believed in good luck.
We believed in the miner who scratched together one last stake and struck the Comstock Lode.”
In two early groundbreaking essay collections, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” (1968) and “The White Album” (1979) she turned her cool, apprehensive gaze on the hippies of Haight-Ashbury, on eccentrics and searchers like Bishop James Pike and Howard Hughes, on the film industry in the post-studio era, and on the death-tinged music of the Doors.
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