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Joan Didion | | Birth Date: |
December 5, 1934 | | Place of Birth: |
Sacramento, California | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
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 Biography of Joan Didion
11,716 words, approx. 39 pages
 "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world." These lines and the William Butler Yeats poem from which they come hold a special fascination for Joan Didion which is reflected in her fictional work. Her... summary from source:
 Biography of Joan Didion
10,615 words, approx. 35 pages
Ever since she first appeared on the literary scene in the early 1960s, Joan Didion has been identified as a California writer. Although her heart belongs to the provincial Sacramento of her girlhood, her best-known essays and novels are set in the... summary from source:
Biography of Joan Didion
4,829 words, approx. 16 pages
Joan Didion told an interviewer in 1992 that she "started out thinking things were pretty coherent. Then I was surprised when they weren't. I decided I better tell people." Didion tells stories of disorder in minimalist novels, lyrical reportage, and...
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 Joan Didion Quotes
444 words, approx. 2 pages
 Joan Didion (born December 5 , 1934 ) is an American writer renowned as a novelist, journalist and prose stylist. Unsourced A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Didion, Joan (1934—) Summary
195 words, approx. 1 pagesJoan Didion has proven herself one of the most acute observers of and commentators on American life in the latter half of the twentieth century. Her widely anthologized essays have been required reading for two generations of college students.... summary from source:
 Didion, Joan
110 words, approx. 1 pages(born Dec. 5, 1934, Sacramento, Calif., U.S.) U.S. novelist and essayist. Her writing explores disorder and personal and social unrest. Her first novel was published in 1963; later novels include Play It as It Lays (1970), A Book of Common Prayer... summary from source:
 Joan Didion Information
1,048 words, approx. 4 pages
Joan Didion (born December 5, 1934) is an American writer, known as a journalist, essayist, and novelist. Didion contributes regularly to The New York Review of Books. According to a 1979 New York Times review of Didion's book, "The White Album,"...
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 The Washington Post Joan Didion: Up Close And Personal
05/10/1992: 1,122 words, approx. 4 pages AFTER HENRY By Joan Didion Simon & Schuster. 319 pp. $22 IT WILL come as no surprise to anyone who has read her novels, but Joan Didion distrusts and dislikes narrative, or at least "narrative" as she chooses to interpret the term. She... summary from source:
The Boston Globe A Tale Of Exile In Miami By Joan Didion
11/11/1987: 1,067 words, approx. 4 pages NEW YORK - Joan Didion, novelist and journalist, is talking about her latest book, "Miami," which is really a tale of two cities, Washington and Miami. It is the story of the Cuban community in exile, el exilo, and of the 28-year history of... summary from source:
 AP News Vanessa Redgrave returns to Broadway
3/3/2007: 1,005 words, approx. 3 pagesVanessa Redgrave is intense _ on stage, screen or living room sofa.It can be intimidating in an interview, but it's the quality Joan Didion sought for the starring role in the Broadway adaptation of "The Year of Magical Thinking," her best-selling memoir of the aftermath... summary from source:
The New York Observer Didion\'d5s Annus Horribilis: How Grief Looks on the Page
10/9/2005: 1,027 words, approx. 3 pagesWe all saw the photo on the cover of The New York Times Magazine: a skeletal Joan Didion showing us up close the real-time re-enactment of a widow’s pain—the image of bereavement blown up like a billboard. One glance at that photo and you’re primed...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
2,678 words, approx. 9 pages
When I am asked why I do not find Joan Didion appealing, I am tempted to answer—not entirely facetiously—that my charity does not naturally extend itself to someone whose lavender love seats match exactly the potted orchids on her mantle, someone who has porcelain elephant end tables, someone who has chosen to burden her adopted daughter with the name Quintana Roo; I am disinclined to find endearing a chronicler of the 1960s who is beset by migraines that can be triggered by her decorator�... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Katherine Usher Henderson
1,883 words, approx. 6 pages
Few contemporary American writers are "American" in all the ways that Joan Didion is. Although she has visited Europe often, she has never written an essay on Europe, nor do we find a single European character in her fiction. Not only are all of her major fictional characters born and raised in the United States; they also bear no marks of European nationality, carry no memory traces of European traditions. (p. 140) In both her fiction and her essays, Didion sees the American character as ofte... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Thomas R. Edwards
788 words, approx. 3 pages
Joan Didion is one of those writers—Norman Mailer, Mary McCarthy, and Gore Vidal are others—who are so good at the higher journalism that their status as novelists may sometimes seem insecure. Do they, we may wonder, keep writing fiction out of professional pride, as if only the novel could truly certify their literary talent and seriousness? Are not their novels, however fine, shadowed by a suspicion, however baseless, that the form is not quite the best form for such powers? Certainly Democr...
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