The celebrated novelist and screenwriter Joan Didion died this December 23 at the age of 87. She was known to mix the world of journalism and literature with a pinch of Hollywood glamour and social criticism into her prose.
Didion died due to complications from Parkinson’s Disease in her New York Home, according to her publisher, Alfred A. Knopf.
Joan started her career as a journalist and essayist being one of her first works published in Vogue Magazine.
She used to explore American culture during the 60s and 70s, while her later work was more personal and introspective. Her writing was known to be edgy, restrained, and elegant.
Didion wrote 19 books, being “Play it as it lays” and “A book of common prayer” one of her bestselling novels. However, the most celebrated title was “Magical Thinking” which in 2005 won the National Book Award and was later turned into a play that ran on Broadway in 2007.
President Obama called her “one of our sharpest and most respected observers of American politics and culture” when he presented her with the National Humanities Medal in 2012.
Her essays were published in several magazines such as Life, Esquire, The Saturday Evening Post, The New York Times, and The New York Review of Books.
