Joan Didion

A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the listener.

A previously unpublished work from one of America's most iconic writers, Joan Didion.

Celebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion’s first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is considered a watershed moment in American writing. First published in 1968, the collection was critically praised as one of the “best prose written in this country.”

Die große amerikanische Schriftstellerin Joan Didion schreibt über die Trauer nach dem Tod ihres Ehemannes und über ihren Versuch, das Unfassbare...

In The Year of Magical Thinking, Didion explores with electric honesty and passion a private yet universal experience....

From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter....

From one of our most iconic and influential writers comes a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt....

Writing with the telegraphic swiftness and microscopic sensitivity that have made her one of our most distinguished journalists, Joan Didion creates a shimmering novel of innocence and evil....

When celebrated writer Joan Didion’s life was altered forever, she wrote a new chapter. In this adaptation of her iconic memoir, Didion transforms the story of the shattering loss of her husband and their daughter into a one-woman play performed by Tony Award winner Vanessa Redgrave....

Selected Shorts: Travel Tales presents a collection of classic travel experiences....

An extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights

From one of America’s greatest and most iconic writers: an honest and courageous portrait of age and motherhood.

Joan Didion (December 5, 1934-December 23, 2021), born in Sacramento, California, was an American author, screenwriter, and journalist.

Joan Didion (December 5, 1934 - December 23, 2021), born in Sacramento, California, was an American author, screenwriter, and journalist.

Joyce Carol Oates called Joan Didion "an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time."....

In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours....

First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era—through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it.

Inez Victor knows that the major casualty of the political life is memory. But the people around Inez have made careers out of losing track....

Miami is not just a portrait of a city, but a masterly study of immigration and exile, passion, hypocrisy, and political violence....

Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion....