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	Joan Didion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joan Didion (born December 5, 1934) is an American writer, renowned as a journalist, playwright, essayist, and novelist.
		Didion was born in Sacramento, California and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1956 with a BA in English.
		Didion attributed her shift in sympathies to the Republican Party's own shift away from what she considered to be the values of Barry Goldwater, whom she had supported in 1964.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joan_Didion (548 words)

	Joan Didion: Staking Out California
		Joan Didion's California is a place defined not so much by what her unwavering eye observes, but by what her memory cannot let go.
		Joan's bedroom is still the faded carnation pink she painted it when she was a freshman at Berkeley, but bougainvillea and ivy have overgrown the windows, giving the chamber a dark, cavelike effect.
		Didion says she once believed "that I could live outside history, that the currents of the time in which I lived did not touch or affect me." Then, sometime in 1966, she says, she became "paralyzed by the conviction that the world as I had understood it no longer existed.
	www.nytimes.com /1979/06/10/books/didion-calif.html (4857 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Joan Didion
		Joan Didion's name recognition as an American writer is such that her frequent byline in the New York Review of Books reads simply “Joan Didion's most recent book is Slouching Toward Bethlehem (1968), a study in the new journalism of the 1960s, remains the single best “period piece” on the California counterculture of that era.
		If Joan Didion persists as something of an enigma to readers and literary critics Bher characters have been denounced as morose and her politics elitist Bit is not because her biography is a public mystery.
		Didion applauds the inventive anarchism of many 1960s activists, appreciating their awareness, well in advance of the press, that something important was happening Byoung people trying to create new forms of community in a social vacuum.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4940 (2014 words)

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		Didion does not.) I don't want you to think I am belaboring this; you may argue that Grace/Didion is being ironic when she compares the cinderblock houses of the poor to the cinderblock houses of the rich.
		Didion is like a latter-day Scarlett O'Hara: she will think about whatever it is she thinks about tomorrow when she dabbles her toes in her pool, all the while calling attention beguilingly to the hairshirt she has fashioned for herself.
		Because Didion seems incapable of believing in, or exercising, volition and free will, she very neatly projects this quality onto Baez, who, admittedly, has been guilty of uttering some mushyminded platitudes in her time (the writing on some of her album covers is quite as adolescent as Didion says it is).
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/103/didion-per-harrison.html (5632 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| Legends of the fall
		Didion insists she didn't know what the label meant, and giggles at the notion of her inclusion ("certainly I have nothing in common with Hunter [S Thompson];"), but she acknowledges an affinity with Norman Mailer "as a reporter, and because he was also an obsessive stylist".
		Didion emphasises the practical, moneymaking motive behind her early essays: "When I started writing pieces, it took me a year or two to understand what you could do with them, that it was as demanding in a way [as fiction]." As she perceived the possibilities, she worked on her prose and tone.
		Didion pioneered a highly personal style of reporting, in which the alienation and distress she perceived all around her were refracted through her own emotions.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,1487966,00.html (3239 words)

	Powell's Books - The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
		Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage — and a life, in good times and bad — that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.
		Dunne and Didion had lived and worked side by side for nearly 40 years, and Dunne's death propelled Didion into a state she calls 'magical thinking.' 'We might expect that we will be prostrate, inconsolable, crazy with loss,' she writes.
		I did not age.' In a sense, all of Didion's fiction, with its themes of loss and bereavement, served as preparation for the writing of this memoir, and there is occasionally a curious hint of repetition, despite the immediacy and intimacy of the subject matter.
	www.powells.com /biblio?PID=25631&cgi=product&isbn=140004314x (725 words)

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		The reportage of Joan Didion always tells us about the same thing--la situacion, the situation--whether she is reporting from San Salvador or Miami or Los Angeles, whether the subject is the water supply or a presidential campaign.
		Didion's own artery of short reportage was first demonstrated in book form in her collection on the 1960s, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, which explored the lives of rock stars, hippies, and other California characters of the time.
		Didion's fury is finally triggered by the refusal of producer/director Paul Mazursky to cross Hollywood class lines and loan her his floor pass at the 1988 Democratic National Convention.
	www.english.upenn.edu /~despey/didion.htm (2069 words)

	Joan Didion - The journalist who invented impersonal personality. By Katie Roiphe
		Joan Didion devotees may be disappointed that her long-awaited new book, Where I Was From, is not, in spite of its title, a memoir.
		Didion tells us the question, "Where will I be from?" occurred to her when her mother died, and it seems that the impetus for this book came out of that death.
		But my impression of Didion in the seventies was that she was a steel taloned elitist, confident enough to buy her fashions from the hip street vendors but common enough to need to make you feel vaguely beneath her no matter how importuning her prose.
	www.slate.com /id/2087929 (1537 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Joan Didion
		Didion may no longer need Dexedrine and a shot of gin and hot water to get her through the anguish of writing; still, the strongest presence in her writings remains her own.
		DIDION'S NEW novel, her first in 12 years, takes place in the year 1984, and the Orwellian resonance of that date is not unintentional.
		For all Didion's insistence on the abyss of existential loneliness, it comes as somewhat of a surprise to find that she is captivated by the mythos of Romeo and Juliet, true love and tragic destiny.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/11.21.96/books-9647.html (2044 words)

	NPR : Rabid Reader: Joan Didion, 'Where I Was From'
		Didion is from a family that, by California standards, is ancient -- her forebears were pioneers who survived a tough trip across the continent, arriving in California driving wrecked wagons.
		Using her trademark lean, precise prose, Didion charts the path of her ancestors from the birth of her great-great-great-great-great-grandmother in Virginia in 1766 to her mother's death in California in 2001.
		Didion questions the very stories Californians tell themselves -- the noble odysseys of their pioneer stock, and the vitality of today's entrepreneurs -- and deflates them, in a way that shows she both loves and is disappointed by the people who have inherited her home state.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1451093 (384 words)

	Majikthise : Highbrow Hentoff: Didion, Schiavo, and bulimia
		If Didion wants to be a stickler for terminological precision, she might want to describe Terri's collapse as "a cardiac arrest" rather than "a heart attack"--but there are no honest rhetorical points to be scored by this distinction.
		So when Didion writes that MS brought "a medical negligence suit against the doctors who had supervised Theresa Schiavo's infertility treatment, arguing that they had failed to pick up the potassium imbalance," she is being perfectly accurate.
		I stand (minimally) corrected, but continue to enjoy your having accused Didion of disingenuousness given your own half-hearted "to be fair," which displayed an indifference to (or ignorance of) the basic chronology of her piece, which was actually published--not to mention written--significantly before the autopsy became public.
	majikthise.typepad.com /majikthise_/2005/06/highbrow_hentof.html (8906 words)

	College Literature: The heart of darkness in Joan Didion's 'Salvador.'@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Joan Didion's adoption of the narrative style of James Conrad in 'Salvador' is an attempt to resist the legitimization of the brutality she witnessed in El Salvador by using abstract principles.
		Her doing so, however, has resulted in an absolutist discourse that is not at all different from the 'cautionary tales' she obviously tried to refrain from employing.
		Furthermore, Didion's belief that the legitimacy of any discourse be relative to its social, historical and discursive contexts only puts the authority of all viewpoints, hers included, at risk.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:20870436&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (212 words)

	75 Readings Plus \| Joan Didion
		This is a profile of Didion from Barnard for a speech she gave there.
		This is a photo of Didion at a women writers photo gallery.
		Didion replies here to a letter regarding an essay of hers about public prayer that appeared in the New York Review of Books.
	highered.mcgraw-hill.com /sites/0072370629/student_view0/joan_didion.html (315 words)

	Joan Didion
		Interview: Joan Didion discusses the press and politicians as they are portrayed in her book "Political Fictions"
		TALKING VOLUMES; Dissecting grief; On an evening in late December 2003, Joan Didion was about to serve dinner to her husband, John Gregory Dunne, when he dropped dead of a heart attack.
		Joan Didion's backward glance; she's a New Yorker now, but the writer still has her California dreams.
	www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0760851.html (400 words)

	MPR: Author Joan Didion deals with grief through "magical thinking"
		Joan Didion's latest book, "The Year of Magical Thinking," recounts how she coped with the sudden death of her husband and her daughter's serious illness in 2004.
		Didion has always worn her Western heritage proudly, and once said that she never really felt like a writer until she left New York and moved back to her beloved California.
		Didion finished the book in December 2004, and with what seemed like growing acceptance, she wrote, "I know that if we are to live ourselves, there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead."
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/2005/10/20_newsroom_joandidion?rsssource=1 (1369 words)

	The Stranger \| Seattle \| Books \| Feature \| The Stealing Never Stops
		I started reading Didion when I was a teenager and I had no idea what, exactly, she was writing about except that it seemed sad and important.
		Didion's voice is never fully absent from my work, cutting through passages I've sworn were all mine.
		Joan Didion reads from and talks about The Year of Magical Thinking on Wed Nov 9 at the Central Library (1000 Fourth Ave, 386-4636) at 7 pm, and it's free.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=24847 (945 words)

	Review \| The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
		Didion, whose work includes Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, Play It As It Lays and Where I Was From, is known for her articulate investigations and observational writing style.
		Didion's writing provides a discovery of the physical body through medical terminology, as well as her own realization about health advocacy and what someone can do, or learn, for their loved ones in times of sickness and death.
		Didion shares her heartfelt and devastating account in a way that is accessible, intense, real and, most of all, human.
	www.januarymagazine.com /biography/magicthink.html (619 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - White Album - Joan Didion - Paperback
		But Didion's landscape was California, northern and southern: Born and raised in Sacramento, she moved to Los Angeles as an adult.
		Didion was an insider who wrote as an outsider, from a detached, journalistic perspective.
		With commanding sureness of mood and language, Joan Didion exposes the realities and dreams of that age of self-discovery whose spiritual center was California.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=2VXL2BZ3NV&isbn=0374522219&itm=1 (763 words)

	Essays: Joan Didion
		This piece by Dave Eggers from 1996 is prefaced by some background information on Didion and impressions of her personality, while the interview itself focuses on Didon's novel, The Last Thing He Wanted, as well as other topics.
		A fifth-generation Californian, Didion was born in Sacramento and raised in the great central plain of California, an area she often describes nostalgically in her work.
		Her reputation as a prose stylist is reflected in a comment by one critic who asserts that "nobody writes better English prose than Joan Didion.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/essays/didion.htm (270 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion - Paperback
		Her essays not only describe the subject at hand—the murderous housewife, the little girl trailing the rock group, the millionaire bunkered in his mansion—but also offer a broader vision of America, one that is both terrifying and tender, ominous and uniquely her own.
		Joyce Carol Oates has written, "Joan Didion is one of the very few writers of our time who approaches her terrible subject with absolute seriousness, with fear and humility and awe.
		Didion might be an observer from another planet–one so edgy and alert that she ends up knowing more about our own world than we know ourselves.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=2VXL2BZ3NV&isbn=0374521727&itm=1 (352 words)

	The White Album - Joan Didion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Joan Didion’s The White Album was first published in 1979 and can be considered a follow-up to her
		It felt like travelling backwards in time and Didion confirms her feeling by naming specific films and books; her opinions are all the more believable given the details she shares.
		Didion deplores the decline in American language usage and level of education without carrying on, seemingly simply observing.
	www.culturevulture.net /Books2/WhiteAlbum.htm (387 words)

	Amazon.com: A Book of Common Prayer (Vintage International): Books: Joan Didion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		As imagined by Didion, her fate is at once utterly particular and fearfully emblematic of an age of conscienceless authority and unfathomable violence.
		Didion's reporting style writing is almost a perfect match for telling the story of this obscure countries political corruption and the insurgency that exists within.
		Didion.) Everytime I think of this book, I think of how the brave narrator, in the course of the developments of the novel, regrets, with the last line in the book, the opening statement she made in the book's lead.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679754865?v=glance (1556 words)

	'Political Fictions' by Joan Didion
		Didion’s work has always come swaddled in a chilly dread, and this one is no different.
		Didion argues that the public has been cut out of the loop of democracy by a “national political class” composed of major donors, party operatives and the media.
		Didion’s comments on books by Dinesh D’Souza and Newt Gingrich and the Starr Report illuminate how the right wing constructed its platform, but an examination of the appeal of third-party candidates, such as Ross Perot and Ralph Nader, would have given them more context.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20010923review848.asp (597 words)

	Powell's Books - Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays by Joan Didion
		Upon its publication in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem confirmed Joan Didion as one of the most prominent writers on the literary scene.
		Her essays not only describe the subject at hand — the murderous housewife, the little girl trailing the rock group, the millionaire bunkered in his mansion — but also offer a broader vision of America, one that is both terrifying and tender, ominous and uniquely her own.
		Joan Didion is the author of five novels and six works of nonfiction: Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, Miami, Salvador, After Henry, and Political Fictions.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio/0374521727 (422 words)

	Joan Didion -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Didion graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1956 and then worked for Vogue magazine from 1956 to 1963, first as a copywriter and later as an editor.
		Dunne married novelist Joan Didion in 1964, and together they wrote several screenplays, including The Panic in Needle Park (1971), A Star Is Born (1976; with others), and Up...
		The name Joan (probably derived from Johannes, or John) for the legendary pontiff was not finally adopted until the 14th century.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9000450?tocId=9000450 (690 words)

	Amazon.com: Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11: Books: Joan Didion,Frank Rich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Didion discusses the "death of irony," conflicting ideas and attitudes since 9/11, the "New American Unilateralism," etc. She also tries to put "the inevitability of going to war with Iraq" in historical context.
		Of course Joan Didion is an icon of the American left and a prose stylist deluxe as well as a trenchant social and political critic.
		Didion is clear in her concerns about why we have lost our powers of free speech and citizenship.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590170733?v=glance (1742 words)

	Seattle Arts & Lectures - Joan Didion
		Didion’s great-great-great grandmother traveled to the West with the infamous Donner-Reed party in 1846, but fortunately her group split off in Nevada, narrowly escaping the cannibalism that became synonymous with the Donners.
		Didion has been hailed as one of the shrewdest observers of America’s political and cultural life.
		Yet by the time of the November 2000 presidential election and the onset of the thirty-six days that came to be known as “Florida,” every aspect of what had been known in 1988 would again need to be rediscovered, the stone pushed up the hill one more time.
	www.lectures.org /didion.html (601 words)

	Daily Celebrations ~ Joan Didion, See It My Way ~ December 5 ~ Ideas to motivate, educate, and inspire
		One of America's finest writers and astute observers, Joan Didion (1934-), was born on this date in Sacramento.
		Didion wrote her first story at age five in a notebook from her mother.
		Always, Didion seems to be in control and has perfected the art of the personal essay.
	www.dailycelebrations.com /120599.htm (261 words)

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