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American writer (1934–2021)

Joan Didion (; December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021) was an American writer and journalist. She is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism, along with Gay Talese, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe.^[1][2][3]

Didion's career began in the 1950s after she won an essay contest sponsored by Vogue magazine.^[4] She would go on to publish essays in The Saturday Evening Post, National Review, Life, Esquire, The New York Review of Books, and The New Yorker.

Her writing during the 1960s through the late 1970s engaged audiences in the realities of the counterculture of the 1960s, the Hollywood lifestyle, and the history and culture of California. Didion's political writing in the 1980s and 1990s concentrated on the subtext of political rhetoric and the United States's foreign policy in Latin America.^[5][6] In 1991, she wrote the earliest Griffin and Annabelle Dunne Explore the Cult of Joan Didion WATIG