Between them, James and Whitman represent the distinction between “life conceived as a discipline” and “life conceived as an ...

Three years after her death, I find myself having grown tired of Joan Didion. I am tired of the books about her and the ...

The book, a dual biography of the two women’s enmeshed personal lives and careers, drops the veil on the prolific L.A.

A revelatory new book is as penetrating and hardboiled about the late Joan Didion as she was about others. The writing icon's acclaimed career was in key part defined by living in, working with ...

Harden Gatehouse: When Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne first moved ... after their adoption of their daughter Quintana Roo forced them out of their Palos Verdes rental. It was here that they ...

Joan Didion, Author, read by Barbara Caruso. HighBridge Audio $26.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59887-005-3 After her husband's fatal heart attack, which came at a time when their daughter Quintana was in ...

Joan Didion’s fiction and nonfiction captured the zeitgeist of Hollywood and California in the 1960s and ‘70s. Decades later, she wrote deeply personal accounts of the deaths of her husband — writer ...

Joan Didion, a literary icon who chronicled 60s ... In 2005, grief became an unwanted inspiration again after her adopted daughter Quintana Roo died of acute pancreatitis at the age of 39.

Saint Joan.” About the second memoir, Blue Nights, and her daughter’s death: Didion, whom Anolik alleges was secretly an alcoholic herself, “bequeathed” to Quintana the alcoholism that ...