In “Didion & Babitz,” author Lili Anolik ... “I did talk about the alcoholism, but that’s because Joan wrote a book about Quintana’s death,” Anolik continues. “I actually learned ...

Three years after her death, I find myself having grown tired of Joan Didion.I am tired of the books about her and the book-length compendiums of her books. I am tired of her likeness in ...

She got involved with a group of serious writers in a house on Franklin Avenue, where the occupants, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion, would throw parties. She would go on to immortalize and ...

(Publishes Feb. 11) “We Tell Ourselves Stories,” by Alissa Wilkinson: A novel approach to the great Joan Didion based in the Hollywood and Washington, D.C., worlds she chronicled. Wilkinson ...

There are floods and droughts and debris flows. There are Santa Ana winds. “It is hard,” Joan Didion wrote in her 1967 essay “Los Angeles Notebook,” “for people who have not lived in Los ...

Joan Didion is herself a character in Democracy (1984), wherein she reconstructs Victor’s life as if picking up scattered puzzle pieces. The reader, let alone Didion, cannot clearly define the ...

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the UK’s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She was 95.

Joan Plowright, an award-winning British actress and widow of Laurence Olivier, has died. She was 95. "She enjoyed a long and illustrious career across theatre, film and TV over seven decades ...

Monica Barbaro is ready for her big spotlight. From flying high as a pilot in “Top Gun: Maverick” to embodying the iconic Joan Baez, Monica Barbaro is making her mark in Hollywood. With her ...

Joan Baez and Bob Dylan were romantically involved in the early 1960s, but they continued to collaborate for decades to come. In 1984, Baez joined Dylan on a tour of Europe, but she quickly ...

LONDON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - British actor Joan Plowright, winner of two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award, has died aged 95, her family said on Friday. Plowright made her on-screen debut in 1956 ...

Oscar nominee Dame Joan Plowright has died at the age of 95, her family said today. The British actress, who was married to Lord Laurence Olivier, was known for her Golden Globe award-winning ...