Joan Didion was an American writer and journalist. She is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism along with
Gay Talese,
Hunter S. Thompson, and
Tom Wolfe.
Didion's career began in the 1950s after she won an essay contest sponsored by Vogue magazine. Over the course of her career, Didion wrote essays for many magazines, including The Saturday Evening Post, Life, Esquire, The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. Her writing during the 1960s through the late 1970s engaged audie…
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