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About Joan Didion
American writer and journalist
Joan Didion was an American writer and journalist. She is known as one of the figures associated with New Journalism. Her work is linked with the movement that brought literary techniques into reporting, alongside writers such as Gay Talese, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe. Her writing is often remembered for that journalistic style and for the influence she had on modern nonfiction.
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Books by Joan Didion
Year of Magical Thinking, The
2007
Play It as It Lays
1970
slouching towards bethlehem
1985
The White Album
1979
Blue nights
2011