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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.