- by foxnews
- 11 Jan 2025
Known for her pioneering blend of the personal and the political in her journalism and essays, Didion became a household name with her writing on US society.
Famous for her detached, sometimes elegiac tone, Didion returned to alienation and isolation throughout her career, whether she was exploring her own grief after the death of her husband John Gregory Dunne in the Pulitzer-winning The Year of Magical Thinking, the emptiness of Hollywood life in the novel Play It As It Lays, or expats caught up in Central American politics in her novel A Book of Common Prayer.
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