Joan Didion (1934–2021)
Autor(a) de The Year of Magical Thinking
About the Author
Born in Sacramento, California, on December 5, 1934, Joan Didion received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1956. She wrote for Vogue from 1956 to 1963, and was visiting regent's lecturer in English at the University of California, Berkeley in 1976. Didion also published novels, mostrar mais short stories, social commentary, and essays. Her work often comments on social disorder. Didion wrote for years on her native California; from there her perspective broadened and turned to the countries of Central America and Southeast Asia. Her novels include Democracy (1984) and The Last Thing He Wanted (1996). Well known nonfiction titles include Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968), The White Album (1979), The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) and Blue Nights (2011). In 1971 Joan Didion was nominated for the National Book Award in fiction for Play It As It Lays. In 1981 she received the American Book Award in nonfiction, and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Prize in nonfiction for The White Album. Didion has received a great deal of recognition for The Year of Magical Thinking, which was awarded the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2005. In 2007, Didion received the National Book Foundation's annual Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. In 2009, Didion was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree by Harvard University. On July 3, 2013 the White House announced Didion was one of the recipients of the National Medals of Arts and Humanities presented by President Barack Obama. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Joan Didion
Telling Stories (Series of Keepsakes Issued by the Friends of Bancroft Library, No. 26) (1978) 9 exemplares
After Henry {essay} 6 exemplares
Goodbye to All That 4 exemplares
On Self-Respect 2 exemplares
Didion, Joan Archive 2 exemplares
“Quiet Days in Malibu” 1 exemplar
White Album 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Boom! Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today (2007) — Contribuidor — 889 exemplares
Reporting Civil Rights, Part 2: American Journalism 1963-1973 (2003) — Contribuidor — 217 exemplares
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (1997) — Contribuidor — 214 exemplares
The Writer on Her Work, Volume I: Contemporary Women Writers Reflect on their Art and Situation (1980) — Contribuidor — 180 exemplares
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Contribuidor — 121 exemplares
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Contribuidor — 93 exemplares
Women's Magazines, 1940-1960: Gender Roles and the Popular Press (1998) — Contribuidor — 89 exemplares
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contribuidor — 81 exemplares
About Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, Poetry, and Essays (1973) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Didion, Joan
- Data de nascimento
- 1934-12-05
- Data de falecimento
- 2021-12-23
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Sacramento, Californië, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Causa da morte
- Parkinson's disease
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA
- Educação
- University of California, Berkeley
- Ocupações
- writer
journalist - Relações
- Dunne, John Gregory (echtgenoot)
Dunne, Dominick (schoonbroer)
Dunne, Quintana Roo (dochter) - Organizações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1981)
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- National Book Award, Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (2007)
Robert Kirsch Award (2005)
Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award (2005)
Gold Medal, American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [2005])
National Humanities Medal (2012) - Agente
- Lynn Nesbit (Janklow and Nesbit)
Henry Robbins
Membros
Discussions
Joan Didion? em Legacy Libraries (Novembro 2022)
Which Joan Didion book should I read first? em Book talk (Novembro 2019)
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Deathreads (1)
Unread books (1)
1960s (1)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 45
- Also by
- 30
- Membros
- 30,217
- Popularidade
- #663
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 668
- ISBN
- 439
- Línguas
- 16
- Marcado como favorito
- 138
Didion chronicles in this memoir twelve months from the moment her husband drops dead at their kitchen table (whilst their only child was, incidentally, also lying critically ill in hospital battling sepsis). Although it's not a book I'd recommend to someone in the throes of grief, despite the circumstances Didion writes about I didn't find it a maudlin read.
Didion writes with utter honesty but never with self-pity, and her brisk matter-of-factness as she describes the most difficult of times feels insightful, brave and clear-eyed rather than sentimental (although it is a heartbreaking story). As a born story-teller who moved in some interesting circles with her writer husband, Didion's life at that time (and earlier in their marriage, which she recounts when unexpected things or places trigger memories) provided an unexpectedly interesting backdrop to this memoir on bereavement, a snapshot of a certain era in American history.
4.5 stars - I really enjoyed Didion's writing in this book, despite the difficult subject matter, and will definitely be seeking out some of her other essays and novels.… (mais)