Writing · Screenplay · Novel · Writer
Born Dec 5, 1934 · Sacramento, California, USA
Active 1971–2021 · Awards: National Humanities Medal, George Polk Award, Prix Médicis essai, California Hall of Fame, St. Louis Literary Award, National Medal of Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals, Edward MacDowell Medal
Joan Didion was an American writer. In the late 1960s, Didion's reportage brought Californian subcultures to wider attention. Her political writing often concentrated on the subtext of rhetoric.