Joan Didion

Joan Didion was an accomplished American writer Wrote “The Year of Magical Thinking”, portrays a true fighter Her first book -“Run, River”, her last -“Let me tell you what I mean" Fiction, non-fiction, plays, screenplays, awards ~ much loved writing queen. 02.03.2022 (She was born on December 5, 1934 and passed away on December 23, 2021. In 2005, she won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for "The Year of Magical Thinking". She later adapted the book into a play, which premiered on Broadway in 2007. In 2013, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama. Didion was profiled in the Netflix documentary "The Center Will Not Hold", directed by her nephew Griffin Dunne, in 2017.) For Michelle Faulkner's "A Celebrity Epitaph" contest