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Joan Didion was born December 5, 1934. She is an American journalist and writer of novels, screenplays, and autobiographical works. Didion is best known for her literary journalism and memoirs. She earned her degree in English from UC-Berkeley in 1956. While studying she took part in an essay competition held by Vogue magazine which she won and was offered a job. While at Vogue, she wrote fashion copy, as well as book and movie reviews. She also became a frequent contributor to The National Review, among other publications. In 1963, Didion published her first novel, Run River. The next year she married John Dunne and they moved to Los Angeles. In 1965 they adopted their only child, Quintana Roo named after the state in southern Mexico. Didion’s first volume of essays, entitled Slouching Towards Bethlehem, was published in 1968 and was a collection of her feelings about the counterculture of the 1960s. In her critical work Katherine Usher Henderson observed that "in both her essays and her fiction, Didion seeks to render the moral complexity of contemporary American experience, especially the dilemmas and ambiguities resulting from the erosion of traditional values by a new social and political reality." Henderson noted, "she violates the conventions of traditional journalism whenever it suits her purpose, fusing the public and the personal, frequently placing herself in an otherwise objective essay, giving us her private and often anguished experience as a metaphor for the writer, for her generation, and sometimes for her entire society." Following her husbands death in 2003, she wrote The Year of Magical Thinking (2005), in which she recounted their marriage and mourned his loss. She again visited tragedy and loss in Blue Nights a memoir in which she attempted to come to terms with the death of her daughter. She was honoured with the National Humanities Medal in 2013. Her life and career were the focus of the documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (2017). “The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.” #wcw #herstory #timeless

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