Joan Didion Born: 5-Dec-1934 Birthplace: Sacramento, CA
Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Author, Screenwriter Nationality: United States Executive summary: Slouching Toward Bethlehem Father: Frank Reese Didion (d.) Mother: Eduene Jerrett Didion (d.) Brother: Jimmy Husband: John Gregory Dunne (author, m. 30-Jan-1964, d. 30-Dec-2003, heart attack) Daughter: Quintana Roo Dunne Michael (b. 1966, d. 26-Aug-2005, pancreatitis)
High School: C. K. McClatchy Senior High School, Sacramento, CA (1952) University: BA English, University of California at Berkeley (1956)
The New Yorker Contributor The New York Review of Books Contributor Vogue Copywriter and Editor (1956-63) New Perspectives Quarterly Advisory Board National Review Book Reviewer Academy of Achievement (2006) American Academy of Arts and Letters American Academy of Arts and Sciences National Book Award for Nonfiction 2005 for The Year of Magical Thinking Nervous Breakdown 1968 Risk Factors: Smoking, Multiple Sclerosis, Depression
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR Dominick Dunne: After the Party (23-Oct-2008) · Herself
Author of books:
Run River (1963, novel) Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968, essays) Play It as It Lays (1970, novella) A Book of Common Prayer (1977, novella) The White Album (1979, essays) Salvador (1983, nonfiction) Democracy (1984, novella) After Henry (1992, essays) The Last Thing He Wanted (1996, novella) Political Fictions (2001, essays) The Year of Magical Thinking (2005, memoir) Blue Nights (2011, memoir)
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