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Author Joan Didion Dead at 87
Acclaimed Author
Joan Didion Is Dead
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Dec 23, 2021 11:34 AM CST

Acclaimed Author Joan Didion Is Dead

She died of complications from Parkinson's at age 87

(Newser) - Joan Didion, the revered author and essayist whose precise social and personal commentary in such classics as The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking made her a uniquely clear-eyed critic of turbulent times, has died at age 87. Didion's publisher Penguin Random House announced the author's...

Joan Didion Talks About Her Fashion Ad

Ever so briefly

(Newser) - Joan Didion didn't "have any clue" of the sensation she caused when it was revealed this week that the 80-year-old writer is the newest face of fashion house Céline , she tells the New York Times . Beyond that, she didn't have much to say: "They got...

Fashion House's Hot New Face: Joan Didion, 80

She stars in Céline ad

(Newser) - "Smart ladies are the new rock stars." That's the takeaway, as Soraya Nadia McDonald sees it in the Washington Post , of the fact that the new face of fashion house Céline is not, say, Gisele Bundchen, but rather writer Joan Didion, who is featured in a...

Joan Didion Documentary Funded on Kickstarter

Project exceeds goal of $80K in one day

(Newser) - The early results of a new Kickstarter campaign make it safe to say that the world very much wants to see a documentary on author Joan Didion. In its first day, the funding campaign exceeded its goal of $80,000, reports Time . By this morning, it had reached $123,000...

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