Writer Joan Didion, whose 'electric anxiety' inspired a generation, has died at 87
When Didion started writing in the 1960s, she put a certain kind of voice on the page — neurotic, female — that hadn't been there before.
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When Didion started writing in the 1960s, she put a certain kind of voice on the page — neurotic, female — that hadn't been there before.
When Didion started writing in the 1960s, she put a certain kind of voice on the page — neurotic, female — that hadn't been there before.
Updated December 23, 2021 at 2:25 PM ET American novelist, journalist and essayist Joan Didion died on Thursday at her home in New York at age 87 from
Joan Didion â?" the author of three memoirs, two political travelogues, five novels, and now, with Let Me Tell You What I Mean, seven collections of essays â?" was born in northern California, in 1934. Her upbringing was somewhat fraught. Her father drank and suffered breakdowns, her mother intoned the dirge-like motto, â?owhat difference does it make?â??, and Sacramento County
When Didion started writing in the 1960s, she put a certain kind of voice on the page — neurotic, female — that hadn't been there before.