In 2007, she was awarded the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. In 2005, Didion was awarded the American Academy of Arts & Letters Gold Medal in Belles Lettres and Criticism. Her memoir The Year of Magical Thinking won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2005. Her nonfiction works include Salvador (1983), Miami (1987), After Henry (1992), Political Fictions (2001), Where I Was From (2003), We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order to Live (2006), Blue Nights (2011), South and West (2017) and Let Me Tell You What I Mean (2021). Didion’s other novels include Play It As It Lays (1970), A Book of Common Prayer (1977), Democracy (1984), and The Last Thing He Wanted (1996).ĭidion’s first volume of essays, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, was published in 1968, and her second, The White Album, was published in 1979. Didion published her first novel, Run River, in 1963. After graduation, Didion moved to New York and began working for Vogue, which led to her career as a journalist and writer.
Joan Didion was born in Sacramento in 1934 and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1956.
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