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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. 
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