Joan Didion, the revered author and essayist whose precise social and personal commentary in such classics as “The White Album” and “The Year of Magical Thinking” made her a uniquely clear-eyed critic ...

In a 1939 essay, the critic Philip Rahv argued that there have been two main types in American literature: the solemn and semi-clerical, which he associates with Henry James, and the exuberant, ...

The revered journalist and writer died at her home in New York City. Revered journalist and author Joan Didion died Thursday at her home in New York City due to complications from Parkinson's disease, ...

On Thursday, it was announced that prolific writer Joan Didion had died at the age of 87. An executive at her publisher, Knopf, confirmed the author's death to TODAY in an email and said that Didion ...

Joan Didion, pictured during her L.A. days, was an unabashed fan of Old Hollywood, author Alissa Wilkinson writes in her new book about the famously reserved essayist and author. (Henry Clarke / Condé ...

About a year after Joan Didion's death in 2021, the New York Public Library (NYPL) began the process to become the stewards of the joint archive of Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne which ...

‘This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend,” a cynical editor remarks toward the end of “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” co-starring one of multitalented novelist and ...

In her 1976 essay, “Why I Write,” Joan Didion described herself as the kind of writer “whose most absorbed and passionate hours are spent arranging words on pieces of paper.” Had she been an ordered ...

A new book by Alissa Wilkinson argues that the iconic writer’s imagination and signature style were profoundly shaped by Hollywood. By Charles Finch Charles Finch is the author, most recently, of ...

If Joan Didion had an overarching preoccupation as a journalist and novelist, it was to find interstices where truth and myth blend into each other. In many of the essays that were collected in the ...