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Joan Didion grave (2021)
View on map:40.804110°N 73.962660°W
Description
Didion at the 2008 Brooklyn Book Festival
Joan Didion
(
/
ˈ
d
ɪ
d
i
ən
/
; December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021) was an American writer. Her career began in the 1950s after she won an essay contest sponsored by
Vogue
magazine.
[2]
Her writing during the 1960s through the late 1970s engaged audiences in the realities of the
counterculture of the 1960s
and the Hollywood lifestyle. Her political writing often concentrated on the subtext of political and social
rhetoric
. In 1991, she wrote the earliest mainstream media article to suggest the
Central Park Five
had been wrongfully convicted.
[2]
In 2005, she won the
National Book Award for Nonfiction
and was a finalist for both the
National Book Critics Circle Award
and the
Pulitzer Prize
for
The Year of Magical Thinking
. She later adapted the book into a play, which premiered on Broadway in 2007. In 2013, she was awarded the
National Medal of Arts
by President
Barack Obama
.
[3]
Didion was profiled in the
Netflix
documentary
The Center Will Not Hold
, directed by her nephew
Griffin Dunne
, in 2017.
References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan Didion
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