[Image of: RSS Feed Icon] Toggle page view between regular and printer-friendly

Person Detail: Joan Didion

Is this YOU? Click here to request an update to your information.

General Information:
Full Name: Joan Didion
Biography:
(1934-2021) Journalist, novelist, writer, screenwriter. Joan Didion was born in Sacramento, California, and died in Manhattan, New York.
Author's Timeline:
1934 (Unknown) County
Joan Didion was born in Sacramento, California, on December 5, 1934. 
1963 (Unknown) County
Run, River
(Pub: Penguin Books ISBN: 0140048545 / 978-0140048544 )
Novel. 
2005 (Unknown) County
The Year Of Magical Thinking
(Pub: Alfred A. Knopf ISBN: 140004314X / 978-1400043149 )
Nonfiction. 
2011 (Unknown) County
Blue Nights
(Pub: Knopf ISBN: 0307267679 / 978-0307267672 )
Memoir. 
1970 (Unknown) County
Panic In Needle Park
Screenplay written with John Gregory Dunne. 
1970 (Unknown) County
Play It As It Lays
(Pub: Farrar Straus & Giroux ISBN: 0374234442 / 978-0374234447 )
Novel. 
1977 (Unknown) County
A Book Of Common Prayer
(Pub: Simon & Schuster ISBN: 0671224913 / 978-0671224912 )
Novel. 
1968 (Unknown) County
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
(Pub: Farrar Straus & Giroux ISBN: 0374266360 ISBN-13 ? : ? 978-0374266363 )
Nonfiction. 
1979 (Unknown) County
The White Album
(Pub: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0671226851 / 978-0671226855 )
Collection of essays. 
2021 (Unknown) County
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
(Pub: Knopf ISBN: 059331848X / 978-0593318485 )
Collection of essays. 
1987 (Unknown) County
Miami
(Pub: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0671646648 / 978-0671646646 )
Nonfiction. 
2021 New York County
Joan Didion died at her home in Manhattan, New York, on December 23, 2021. 
2021 New York County
Joan Didion was interred in Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, Manhattan, New York. 
Featured Events
Thursday, September 29
Broadstone Women in the City
New York, NY
6:00 PM   |   View Details »

Browse the NY Literary Events Calendar »
Browse the NY Special Events Calendar »
Browse National Recurring Events »

Explore New York
Albany Allegany Broome Cattaraugus Cayuga Chautauqua Chemung Chenango Clinton Columbia Cortland Delaware Dutchess Erie Essex Essex Franklin Fulton Genesee Greene Hamilton Herkimer Jefferson Lewis Livingston Madison Monroe Montgomery Nassau Niagara Oneida Onondaga Ontario Orange Orleans Oswego Otsego Otsego Putnam Rensselaer Rockland St. Lawrence Saratoga Schenectady Schoharie Schuyler Seneca Steuben Suffolk Sullivan Tioga Tompkins Ulster Warren Washington Wayne Westchester Wyoming Yates See NYC Lit Map Bishop, Elizabeth Cornplanter, Jesse Melville, Herman Clemens (Mark Twain), Samuel Cooper, James Fenimore Gardner, John Barnes, Djuna Harte, Francis Brett Douglass, Frederick Whitman, Walt Paine, Thomas Nabokov, Vladimir Millay, Edna St. Vincent Ali, Agha Shahid View NYC Lit Map Go to home page View NYSCA website
CLOSE
Bronx County New York County (Manhattan) Queens County Kings County (Brooklyn) Richmond County (Staten Island) Poe, Edgar Allan Kubrick, Stanley Hart, Moss Moore, Marianne Craig Kang, Younghill Stein, Gertrude Corso, Gregory Da Ponte, Lorenzo de Burgos, Julia Singer, Isaac Bashevis Hansberry, Lorraine Parker, Dorothy McCarthy, Mary Schomburg, Arthur A. Baldwin, James Cather, Willa Sibert View NYS Lit Map Go to home page View NYSCA website
CLOSE
[Please Wait Spinner] Please Wait...