Joan Didion

When celebrated writer Joan Didion’s life was altered forever, she wrote a new chapter. In this adaptation of her iconic memoir, Didion transforms the story of the shattering loss of her husband and their daughter into a one-woman play performed by Tony Award winner Vanessa Redgrave....

An extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights

In The Year of Magical Thinking, Didion explores with electric honesty and passion a private yet universal experience....

This program is read by actor and singer-songwriter Maya Hawke, star of Netflix's Stranger Things. "Narrating in a voice as clear and sustaining as a cool glass of water, Hawke’s unflashy approach allows the words to reveal their magic."—The Orange County Register "Didion’s timeless essays...

In her latest forays into the American scene, Joan Didion covers ground from Washington to Los Angeles, from a TV producer's gargantuan "manor" to the racial battlefields of New York's criminal courts....

En él, la escritora Joan Didion, una de las autoras norteamericanas más reputadas de finales del siglo XX, narra con una fascinante distancia emocional la muerte repentina de su marido, el también escritor John Gregory Dunne....

Everett McClellan and his wife, Lily, are the great-grandchildren of pioneers....

From one of our most iconic and influential writers comes a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt....

Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard dialogue, observations, interviews, drafts of essays and articles—and here is one such draft that traces a road trip she took with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, in June 1970, through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama....

The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war....

Inez Victor knows that the major casualty of the political life is memory. But the people around Inez have made careers out of losing track....

Writing with the telegraphic swiftness and microscopic sensitivity that have made her one of our most distinguished journalists, Joan Didion creates a shimmering novel of innocence and evil....

A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil—literally in Hollywood, Las...

Miami is not just a portrait of a city, but a masterly study of immigration and exile, passion, hypocrisy, and political violence....

Didion discusses her deeply moving new memoir about her daughter, and her own fears and thoughts about growing old....

"First appearing in print in 1979, this remarkable and intimate audiobook chronicles the implosion of the 1960s and reports on the people, mores, and trends that defined that turbulent time."—AudioFile First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and...

In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours....

From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter....

The legendary author of Play It As It Lays and Slouching Towards Bethlehem here trains her eye on the far frontiers of the Monroe Doctrine....

Joyce Carol Oates called Joan Didion "an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time."....