Joan Didion, Beloved Author, Dies At 87
Joan Didion, Beloved Author, Dies At 87
Joan Didion, author of “The Year Of Magical Thinking” and “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” has died at age 87.
She died of complications related to Parkinson’s disease at her home in New York City, her publisher said in a statement.
Didion, whose writing shaped American literature for decades, was also famous for her novels “Play It As It Lays” (1970) and “A Book Of Common Prayer” (1977), as well as essays such as “On Keeping A Notebook,” “Why I Write” and “Goodbye To All That,” many of which ended up in her book of essays, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” (1968).
She won several Lifetime Achievement Awards, and in 2006, she was a Pulitzer finalist for her 2005 memoir “The Year Of Magical Thinking,” about the death of her husband, John Dunne, and her subsequent mourning.