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Joan Didion (1934–2021)

Author of The Year of Magical Thinking

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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, 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)
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The Year of Magical Thinking 9,340 copies, 264 reviews
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays 3,577 copies, 72 reviews
Play It As It Lays 2,519 copies, 52 reviews
The White Album 2,055 copies, 30 reviews
Blue Nights 1,349 copies, 62 reviews
A Book of Common Prayer 956 copies, 11 reviews
Where I Was From 738 copies, 14 reviews
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live 687 copies, 5 reviews
Democracy 656 copies, 11 reviews
Salvador 635 copies, 9 reviews
The Last Thing He Wanted 560 copies, 7 reviews
After Henry: Essays 485 copies, 1 review
Miami 470 copies, 8 reviews
South and West 413 copies, 15 reviews
Political Fictions 405 copies, 2 reviews
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The Art of the Personal Essay (Contributor) 1,233 copies, 8 reviews
Boom! Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today (Contributor) 822 copies, 20 reviews
The Best American Essays of the Century (Contributor) 697 copies, 4 reviews
The Norton Book of Women's Lives (Contributor) 387 copies, 1 review
The New Journalism (Contributor) 304 copies, 1 review
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Contributor) 255 copies, 4 reviews
Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology (Contributor) 211 copies, 2 reviews
Reporting Civil Rights, Part 2: American Journalism 1963-1973 (Contributor) 200 copies
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (Contributor) 196 copies, 1 review
Maiden Voyages: Writings of Women Travelers (Contributor) 185 copies, 1 review
The Best American Travel Writing 2004 (Contributor) 178 copies, 2 reviews
The Best American Essays 1999 (Contributor) 175 copies, 1 review
Eight Modern Essayists (some editions) 167 copies, 2 reviews
Some Women (Introduction) 137 copies, 2 reviews
The Norton Book of Personal Essays (Contributor) 132 copies, 1 review
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