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(1934-2021) Journalist, novelist, writer, screenwriter. Joan Didion was born in Sacramento, California, and died in Manhattan, New York.

Full Name

Joan Didion

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1934

BIRTH

Joan Didion was born in Sacramento, California, on December 5, 1934.

1963

LITWORK

Run, River
Penguin Books
0140048545 / 978-0140048544
Novel.

1968

LITWORK

Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Farrar Straus & Giroux
0374266360 ISBN-13 ? : ? 978-0374266363
Nonfiction.

1970

LITWORK

Panic In Needle Park


Screenplay written with John Gregory Dunne.

1970

LITWORK

Play It As It Lays
Farrar Straus & Giroux
0374234442 / 978-0374234447
Novel.

1977

LITWORK

A Book Of Common Prayer
Simon & Schuster
0671224913 / 978-0671224912
Novel.

1979

LITWORK

The White Album
Simon and Schuster
0671226851 / 978-0671226855
Collection of essays.

1987

LITWORK

Miami
Simon and Schuster
0671646648 / 978-0671646646
Nonfiction.

2005

LITWORK

The Year Of Magical Thinking
Alfred A. Knopf
140004314X / 978-1400043149
Nonfiction.

2011

LITWORK

Blue Nights
Knopf
0307267679 / 978-0307267672
Memoir.

2021

LITWORK

Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Knopf
059331848X / 978-0593318485
Collection of essays.

2021

DEATH

Joan Didion died at her home in Manhattan, New York, on December 23, 2021.

2021

INTERMENT

Joan Didion was interred in Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, Manhattan, New York.

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