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Joan Didion

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In this collection of essays by Joan Didion entitled "The White Album", the reader is taken on a crash tour of the late Sixties and early Seventies, as seen though the eyes of the reporter Didion. The book is composed of selected pieces of her essays and articles published at that time, and examines the themes of the American Dream, Celebrity, and the chaos of the Sixties in general. "The White...

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Joan Didion Biographies (5)

Joan Didion

1,763 words, approx. 6 pages

Although she is perhaps best known as a precise and graceful essayist, Joan Didion (born 1934) has also triumphed as a novelist and, with her husband, as a screenwriter.Joan Didion was born December 5... Read more

Joan Didion

4,477 words, approx. 15 pages

Joan Didion was born on 5 December 1934 to Frank Reese and Eduene (Jerrett) Didion, a family whose roots in California's Central Valley go back five generations. She was raised in Sacramento as an Epi... Read more

Joan Didion

10,634 words, approx. 36 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 girlhoo... Read more

Joan Didion

4,804 words, approx. 17 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 dis... Read more

Joan Didion

11,668 words, approx. 39 pages

Biography Essay"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 J... Read more