American writer, journalist, publicist and screenwriter. Joan DidionThe cultural icon of the United States, whose discerning eye has characterized his work, died this Thursday at the age of 87 at his home in the New York City area of Manhattan, local media reported. According to his critics, Didion, a spokesman for the so-called “new journalism” in which the journalist acts as a narrator and witness, has sharply reflected the American world in his work. “Before turning to political reporting and scripts, she established herself in American fiction,” reads the writer’s obituary.
The most famous work of Didion, who suffered from Parkinson’s disease in Spain, is A year of magical thinking, which she wrote after the loss of her husband John Gregory Dunn and daughter, with whom she won the 2005 National Book Award in the United States for popular science work. Born in Sacramento, California on December 5, 1934, she graduated from the University of Berkeley in California and received an honorary degree in literature from Harvard and Yale Universities.
She began working for Vogue magazine, where she was an editor and critic, and also regularly wrote articles for The New York Review of Books. Together with her husband, she also wrote scripts for films, including the one based on which the film was shot. As the game goes on (1972), based on the film Frank Perry with Anthony Perkins in the title role. She is an author besides novels. Muddy river, Book of Common Prayer, Democracy Y The last thing he wanted… In 2017, Netflix released a documentary about this called Joan Didion: center is inferiorled by his nephew Griffin Dunn.