Joan Didion Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Joan Didion (born December 5, 1934) is an American author best known for her novels and her literary journalism. Her novels and essays explore the disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos, where the overriding theme is individual and social fragmentation. A sense of anxiety or dread permeates much of her work.
National Book Award for Nonfiction, Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, St. Louis Literary Award, Evelyn F. Burkey Award, New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year, Ambassador Book Award for American Studies, Clifton Fadiman Medal For Excellence In Fiction, American Academy of Ar...
Nominations
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir/Autobiography, National Book Award for General Nonfiction (Paperback)
Movies
New York in the Fifties, Up Close and Personal, True Confessions, A Star Is Born, Play It as It Lays, Such Good Friends, The Panic in Needle Park, Shotgun Freeway
Star Sign
Sagittarius
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I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned by someone else.
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[on the death of her adopted daughter] I didn't take seriously how troubled she was. She was troubled from very early, certainly from the time she was five or six. If you come home and your child tells you that she's called a mental institution--that should have triggered something other than amusement on my part.
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[on writing] The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.
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When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something . . . but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.
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Fact
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She had an adopted daughter, Quintana Roo Dunne Michael, was born on March 3, 1966 and died on August 26, 2005 of natural causes.
