Joan Didion (1934–2021)
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Born in Sacramento, California, on December 5, 1934, Joan Didion received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1956. She wrote for Vogue from 1956 to 1963, and was visiting regent's lecturer in English at the University of California, Berkeley in 1976. Didion also published novels, visa mer short stories, social commentary, and essays. Her work often comments on social disorder. Didion wrote for years on her native California; from there her perspective broadened and turned to the countries of Central America and Southeast Asia. Her novels include Democracy (1984) and The Last Thing He Wanted (1996). Well known nonfiction titles include Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968), The White Album (1979), The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) and Blue Nights (2011). In 1971 Joan Didion was nominated for the National Book Award in fiction for Play It As It Lays. In 1981 she received the American Book Award in nonfiction, and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Prize in nonfiction for The White Album. Didion has received a great deal of recognition for The Year of Magical Thinking, which was awarded the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2005. In 2007, Didion received the National Book Foundation's annual Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. In 2009, Didion was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree by Harvard University. On July 3, 2013 the White House announced Didion was one of the recipients of the National Medals of Arts and Humanities presented by President Barack Obama. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Joan Didion
Telling Stories (Series of Keepsakes Issued by the Friends of Bancroft Library, No. 26) (1978) 9 exemplar
After Henry {essay} 6 exemplar
Goodbye to All That 4 exemplar
Didion, Joan Archive 2 exemplar
On Self-Respect 2 exemplar
“Quiet Days in Malibu” 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
Boom! Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 880 exemplar
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 211 exemplar
The Writer on Her Work, Volume I: Contemporary Women Writers Reflect on their Art and Situation (1980) — Bidragsgivare — 175 exemplar
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 119 exemplar
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 92 exemplar
Women's Magazines, 1940-1960: Gender Roles and the Popular Press (1998) — Bidragsgivare — 89 exemplar
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Bidragsgivare — 79 exemplar
About Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, Poetry, and Essays (1973) — Bidragsgivare — 26 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Vedertaget namn
- Didion, Joan
- Födelsedag
- 1934-12-05
- Avled
- 2021-12-23
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Sacramento, Californië, USA
- Dödsort
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Dödsorsak
- Parkinson's disease
- Bostadsorter
- New York, New York, USA
- Utbildning
- University of California, Berkeley
- Yrken
- writer
journalist - Relationer
- Dunne, John Gregory (echtgenoot)
Dunne, Dominick (schoonbroer)
Dunne, Quintana Roo (dochter) - Organisationer
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1981)
- Priser och utmärkelser
- National Book Award, Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (2007)
Robert Kirsch Award (2005)
Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award (2005)
Gold Medal, American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [2005])
National Humanities Medal (2012) - Agent
- Lynn Nesbit (Janklow and Nesbit)
Henry Robbins
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
Joan Didion? i Legacy Libraries (november 2022)
Which Joan Didion book should I read first? i Book talk (november 2019)
Recensioner
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Kvinna i 30-årsåldern genomgår livskris. Hon var tidigare fotomodell och Hollywoodstjärna och gift med en filmregissör. Nu kör hon nätterna igenom på motorvägen och låter sig utnyttjas av sina vänner. Själen lider och hon vill ingenting. Det är sorgligt och smutsigt. Hennes likgiltighet är det som ger henne styrka men ses med oförstående av hennes fd man och de som kallar sig hennes vänner.
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