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1. Didion, Joan Didionnoun

   United States writer (born in 1934)

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1. Joan Didion

   Joan Didion (; December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021) was an American writer. Along with Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson and Gay Talese, she is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism. Didion's career began in the 1950s after she won an essay contest sponsored by Vogue magazine. Her writing during the 1960s through the late 1970s engaged audiences in the realities of the counterculture of the 1960s, the Hollywood lifestyle and California culture and history. Didion's political writing in the 1980s and 1990s often concentrated on the subtext of political and social rhetoric. In 1991, she wrote the earliest mainstream media article to suggest the Central Park Five had been wrongfully convicted. In 2005, Didion won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for The Year of Magical Thinking, a memoir of the year following the death of her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne. She later adapted the book into a play, which premiered on Broadway in 2007. In 2013, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama. Didion was profiled in the Netflix documentary The Center Will Not Hold, directed by her nephew Griffin Dunne, in 2017.

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   Joan Didion (December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021) was a highly acclaimed American novelist, essayist and screenwriter known for her distinctive style of writing that combined reportage with personal reflection. She authored many iconic works such as "Slouching Towards Bethlehem", "Play It As It Lays", and "The Year of Magical Thinking", the latter of which won the 2005 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Her writing was marked by its focus on the disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos. Her critical outlook, literary style, and incisive observations of the American experience made her one of the most distinguished voices of her era.

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1. Joan Didion

   Joan Didion is an American author best known for her novels and her literary journalism. Her novels and essays explore the disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos, where the overriding theme is individual and social fragmentation. A sense of anxiety or dread permeates much of her work.

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