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Didion, Joan Average customer rating: The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion Manufacturer: Vintage ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel Team of Rivals Water for Elephants: A Novel The Glass Castle: A Memoir Suite Francaise ASIN: Release Date: Book Description Average customer rating: Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays Joan Didion Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: The White Album The Year of Magical Thinking Where I Was From Play It As It Lays: A Novel A Book of Common Prayer ASIN: Book Description Universally acclaimed when it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has become a modern classic. More than any other book of its time, this collection captures the mood of 1960s America, especially the center of its counterculture, California. These essays, keynoted by an extraordinary report on San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, all reflect that, in one way or another, things are falling apart, "the center cannot hold." An incisive look at contemporary American life, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for several decades as a stylistic masterpiece. Contents: I. LIFE STYLES IN TH

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Joan Didion From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Joan Didion Didion at the 2008 Brooklyn Book Festival Born December 5, 1934 Sacramento, California U.S. Occupation Novelist Memoirist Essayist Nationality American Period 1963–present Subjects Memoir Drama Notable work(s) Slouching Towards Bethlehem The Year of Magical Thinking Spouse(s) John Gregory Dunne (1932-2003; his death @ 71) Joan Didion (born December 5, 1934) is an American author best known as a novelist and writer of personalized, journalistic essays . The disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos upon which her essays comment are explored more fully in her novels, where the overriding theme is individual and social fragmentation. A sense of anxiety or dread permeates much of her work. Contents Childhood and education Adult life Professional life Personal life ... edit Childhood and education Joan Didion was born in Sacramento, California , to parents Frank Reese and Eduene (Jerrett) Didion. Didion recalls writing things down as early as age five, though she claims that she never saw herself as a writer until after being published. She read everything she could get her hands on after learning how to read and even needed written permission from her mother to borrow adult books, biographies especially, from the library at a young age. With this, she identified herself as being a "shy, bookish child", who pushed herself to overcome these personal obstacles through acting and public speaking. As a child, Didion went to kindergarten and first grade; however, as a direct result of her father's involvement in World War II in the

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Didion, Joan From Astro-Databank Jump to: navigation search Joan Didion natal chart (Placidus) natal chart English style (Equal houses) Joan Didion Name Didion, Joan Gender : F born on 5 December 1934 at 17:55 (= 5:55 PM ) Place Sacramento CA, USA, Timezone PST h8w (is standard time) Data source BC/BR in hand Rodden Rating AA Astrology data Asc. add Joan Didion to 'my astro' Biography American novelist, journalist, and screenwriter. Her first book, "Run River," was published 1/30/1964; she also wrote for magazines as a free-lancer. She wrote best sellers, "Play It As It Lays" in 1970, and "A Book Of Common Prayer", in 1977. She collaborated on screenplays, "Panic In Needle Park" in 1971, and "A Star Is Born" in 1975. 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. As an undergraduate English major at UC Berkeley she won an essay sponsored by Vogue magazine. As a result, Vogue hired her, and for eight years she lived in New York City, while she rose to associate features editor. She wrote her first novel, "Run River," in 1963.

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Welcome, guest! ~ Login Register Home Browse ... Challenge Quick Search: S9.com Biographies Didion, Joan Born: 1934 AD Currently alive, at 75 years of age. Nationality: American Categories: Novelists 1934 - Joan Didion was born on December 5th, in Sacramento, California, the daughter of Frank Reese and Eduene (Jerrett) Didion. Although she is perhaps best known as a precise and graceful essayist, Joan Didion has also triumphed as a novelist and, with her husband, as a screenwriter. 1956 - The family ultimately settled in California, where Didion graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. 1963 - While at Vogue, Didion composed her first novel, "Run River". Published and set in Didion's birthplace, Sacramento, California, Run River centered around the troubled marriage of protagonist Lily Knight McClellan. 1964 - Didion's partner in life and sometimes in work is writer John Gregory Dunne, whom she met. They were married and adopted a baby girl, Quintana Roo, and spent 25 years in California. They have worked together intermittently ever since Dunne helped edit Didion's first book, Run River. 1968 - Her first collection, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem", was published. The book was a collection of essays that had been previously published in such periodicals as American Scholar, California Monthly, New York Times Magazine, and the Saturday Evening Post.

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