Didion was born in Sacramento, California in 1934, and she lived and worked in California for many years, writing a memoir regarding her view of the golden state in the 2003 book Where I Was From.ĭidion was preceded in death by her husband, John Gregory Dunne, who died in December of 2003, and her daughter, Quintana Roo Dunne, who passed in 2005. Didion received the National Medal of Arts and Humanities in 2013, awarded to her by former President Barack Obama.Īmong her many topics of interest, Didion wrote intensely about her two homes: California and New York City. Over the decades it seems that her work has become even more essential and elucidating, and within recent years, her work has become essential to the canon of American literature.
However, her writing has remained incisive and clear, cutting to the heart of issues both political, social, and personal. She was 87 years old.ĭidion was a prominent writer in the New Journalism movement, a style which grew to prominence in the 1960s and was characterized by an unusual, subjective perspective. Joan Didion, the legendary author of Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, and The Year of Magical Thinkinghas passed away due to complications from Parkinson's disease, confirms her publisher Alfred A.
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