Joan Didion Dies at 87

[Ignatius L Hoops]

Joan Didion, peerless prose stylist, dies at 87

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 of turbulent times, has died. She was 87.

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[coolhandgopher]

The only thing I have read by Didion was The Year of Magical Thinking a few years ago and it's on my short list of best non-fiction.

 

[saintpaulguy]

Staying on brand, she was required reading when I was a student at the U.