Peerless prose stylist and National Book Award winner Joan Didion dies aged 87
Joan Didion, the revered American author and essayist, has died aged 87.
Writing on everything from hippies to presidential campaigns to the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, her publisher Penguin Random House paid tribute to her as "one of the country’s most trenchant writers and astute observers."A novelist, journalist, playwright and essayist, Didion's essay collection The White Album has become standard reading and Slouching Towards Bethlehem and Play It As It Lays became essential collections of literary journalism.
She once observed that "I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests."Didion received a National Humanities Medal in 2012, when she was praised for devoting “her life to noticing things other people strive not to see”.
In her 70s, she reported on personal tragedy in the heartbreaking 2005 work, The Year of Magical Thinking, a narrative formed out of the chaos of grief that followed the death of her husband and writing partner, John Gregory Dunne.
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