| Joan Didion  Born: 5-Dec-1934
Birthplace: Sacramento, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author, Screenwriter Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Slouching Toward Bethlehem Father: Frank Reese Didion (d.)
Mother: Eduene Jerrett Didion (d.)
Brother: Jimmy
Husband: John Gregory Dunne (author, m. 30-Jan-1964, d. 30-Dec-2003, heart attack)
Daughter: Quintana Roo Dunne Michael (b. 1966, d. 26-Aug-2005, pancreatitis)
High School: C.K. McClatchy Senior High School, Sacramento, CA (1952)
University: BA English, UC Berkeley (1956)
The New Yorker Contributor
The New York Review of Books Contributor
Vogue Copywriter and Editor (1956-63)
New Perspectives Quarterly Advisory Board
National Review Book Reviewer
Academy of Achievement (2006)
American Academy of Arts and Letters
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Nervous Breakdown 1968
Risk Factors: Smoking, Multiple Sclerosis, Depression
Author of books:
Run River (1963, novel)
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968, essays)
Play It as It Lays (1970, novella)
A Book of Common Prayer (1977, novella)
The White Album (1979, essays)
Salvador (1983, nonfiction)
Democracy (1984, novella)
After Henry (1992, essays)
The Last Thing He Wanted (1996, novella)
Political Fictions (2001, essays)
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