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Joan Didion is one of America's most respected writers, her work constituting some of the greatest portraits of modern-day American culture. Over the four decades of her career, she has produced widely-acclaimed journalistic essays, personal essays, novels, non-fiction, memoir and screenplays. Her memoir The Year of Magical Thinking won the National Book Award in 2005.
Didion's essays of a world featuring barricades and bombings, mass murders and kidnapped heiresses make recent history as filtered through her seem a savage and passionate drama, something you can put a hand on and feel it beating, something you can put your ear to and hear its story. VILLAGE VOICE Brilliant, troubling, indelible tales and reflections. SAN DIEGO TRIBUNE Reveals a wholly original analytic mind, a sensibility as expansive and idiosyncratic as a 19th-century novelist's. MONA SIMPSON Our quintessential essayist. JERRY KOSINSKI, 'LA Times'
