Joan Didion
Didion, Joan - dĭdˈēŏn, 1934–, American writer, b. Sacramento, Calif., grad. Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1956. Her works often explore the despair of contemporary American life, a condition she views as produced by the disintegration of morality and values. She is known for a cool and almost brittle style that emphasizes the concrete and eschews the Read More...
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The Art of Fact: Contemporary Artists of Nonfiction (Chap. 4 "Joan Didion's Lambent Light")
by Barbara Lounsberry. 214 pgs.
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San Francisco in Fiction: Essays in a Regional Literature (Chap. 10 "Clear-Cutting the Western Myth: Beyond Joan Didion")
by David Fine, Paul Skenazy. 243 pgs.
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Literary Nonfiction: Theory, Criticism, Pedagogy (Discussion of Joan Didion begins on p. 264)
by Chris Anderson. 338 pgs.
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A Sourcebook of American Literary Journalism: Representative Writers in an Emerging Genre ("Joan Didion" begins on p. 353)
by Thomas B. Connery. 410 pgs.
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