List of Books by Joan Didion

Joan Didion (1934-2021) was the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, as well as several screenplays written with her late husband, John Gregory Dunne. Her books include The White Album, Play It As It Lays, and Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Her book, The Year of Magical Thinking, won the National Book Award in 2005.

All Books By Joan Didion

Joan Didion is an American author best known for her works Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Play It as It Lays, and The Year of Magical Thinking. Didion was born in Sacramento, California, and spent her childhood and adolescence in various states due to her father's service in the Army. She studied English at the University of California, Berkeley, and started her career at Vogue as a research assistant after college. After working at Vogue for seven years, she published her first novel, Run River, in 1963. Five years later, she published her first nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, which was favorably received by critics and readers alike. Perhaps her best-known work, The Year of Magical Thinking, won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography/Autobiography and the National Book Critics Circle Award. This memoir was written a year after the death of Didion's husband John Gregory Dunne. It's considered a classic book about grief, loss, and mourning. Browse a wide selection of books by Joan Didion at Barnes & Noble, including Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (LOA #341), a literary collection of Didion's two novels and three essay collections.

Joan Didion Bestsellers

Let Me Tell You What I Mean The White Album: Essays The Year of Magical Thinking Slouching Towards Bethlehem Play It As It Lays Blue Nights Where I Was From South and West: From a Notebook