Joan Didion, Essayist Who Helped Usher in "New Journalism," Dead at 87
The author of Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The Year of Magical Thinking, and more has died.
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The author of Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The Year of Magical Thinking, and more has died.
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
Detached observer of American society and political life through her collections of journalism, novels and screenwriting
Didion’s book of essays, Let Me Tell You What I Mean, taps into what makes the writer an American literary icon.
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.