Joan Didion (1934–2021)
Autore di L' anno del pensiero magico
Sull'Autore
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, mostra altro 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) mostra meno
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Opere di Joan Didion
Telling Stories (Series of Keepsakes Issued by the Friends of Bancroft Library, No. 26) (1978) 9 copie
After Henry {essay} 6 copie
Goodbye to All That 4 copie
Didion, Joan Archive 2 copie
On Self-Respect 2 copie
“Quiet Days in Malibu” 1 copia
Opere correlate
Boom! Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today (2007) — Collaboratore — 879 copie
The Writer on Her Work, Volume I: Contemporary Women Writers Reflect on their Art and Situation (1980) — Collaboratore — 175 copie
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Collaboratore — 119 copie
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Collaboratore — 92 copie
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Collaboratore — 79 copie
About Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, Poetry, and Essays (1973) — Collaboratore — 26 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Didion, Joan
- Data di nascita
- 1934-12-05
- Data di morte
- 2021-12-23
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Sacramento, Californië, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Causa della morte
- Parkinson's disease
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- University of California, Berkeley
- Attività lavorative
- writer
journalist - Relazioni
- Dunne, John Gregory (echtgenoot)
Dunne, Dominick (schoonbroer)
Dunne, Quintana Roo (dochter) - Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1981)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- 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) - Agente
- Lynn Nesbit (Janklow and Nesbit)
Henry Robbins
Utenti
Discussioni
Joan Didion? in Legacy Libraries (Novembre 2022)
Which Joan Didion book should I read first? in Book talk (Novembre 2019)
Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 43
- Opere correlate
- 30
- Utenti
- 29,336
- Popolarità
- #682
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 648
- ISBN
- 428
- Lingue
- 16
- Preferito da
- 137
- A proposito di
- 2
- Citazioni
- 670