Joan Didion, American journalist and author, dies at age 87

The unsparing observer of US culture, politics and public life won huge acclaim for her memoir The Year of Magical Thinking• Read Alex Clark’s interview with Joan Didion from February 2021• Obituary: Joan DidionJoan Didion, the eminent journalist, author and anthropologist of contemporary American politics and culture – a singularly clear, precise voice across a multitude of subjects for more than 60 years – has died at her home in Manhattan, New York. She was 87.The cause of death was Parkinson’s disease, according to Paul Bogaards, an executive at Didion’s publisher Knopf. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2021-12-23 17:19:56 UTC ]

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