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Joan Didion (1934–2021), award-winning novelist and journalist

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Joan Didion was a novelist and journalist who won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for her 2005 book “The Year of Magical Thinking.”Didion got her start at Vogue magazine after winning their 1956 Prix de Paris essay contest.

She began to rise as a notable young writer in the 1960s, with her first novel “Run, River” as well as articles for magazine including Life, Esquire, and the Saturday Evening Post.

In her early nonfiction, Didion became part of the New Journalism school as she explored the America of the 1960s and ‘70s. She later published many of those articles in the collections “Slouching Toward Bethlehem” and “The White Album.”Didion continued to write novels, including “A Book of Common Prayer” and “Democracy.” She and her.

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