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LOS ANGELES — Can a single object contain within it the narratives of a family and an entire nation? If so, for Joan Didion that item may have been a

LOS ANGELES — Can a single object contain within it the narratives of a family and an entire nation? If so, for Joan Didion that item may have been a

LOS ANGELES — Can a single object contain within it the narratives of a family and an entire nation? If so, for Joan Didion that item may have been a

LOS ANGELES — Can a single object contain within it the narratives of a family and an entire nation? If so, for Joan Didion that item may have been a

Didion appeared to not let a personal agenda get in the way of straight-shooter writing, columnist George Skelton writes.

Few writers examined their own assumptions and misapprehensions as intelligently as Didion.

Didion's book 'Where I Was From' picks apart mythologies of the overland crossing that shaped the Anglo West psyche. How a potato masher figures in the story.

Joan Didion, who died Thursday at 87, produced decades’ worth of memorable work across genres and subjects: personal essays, reporting and criticism on pop culture, political dispatches from at home

Joan Didion, who died Thursday at 87, produced decades’ worth of memorable work across genres and subjects: personal essays, reporting and criticism on pop culture, political dispatches from at home

On Thursday, Didion was quietly honored by some in her hometown, even though she left Sacramento long ago and long clung to her early memories.