![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Didion recounts her experiences pf mourning Dunne’s death while caring for Quintana in her 2005 memoir The Year of Magical Thinking, which received the 2005 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Didion’s life took a tragic turn in 2003, when Quintana became critically ill, and Dunne suffered a fatal heart attack in December. Didion published her third novel, A Book of Common Prayer, in 1977, and the couple returned to New York in the 1990s. In the 1970s, Didion and Dunne collaborated on a number of screenplays, including The Panic in Needle Park (1971) and a film adaptation of Play It as It Lays (1972). She published her second novel, Play It as It Lays, in 1970. The couple wrote magazine pieces during this period, and Didion published her first nonfiction book, Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968), which is considered to be one of the most important books of the 1960s. The couple married in 1964, relocated to Southern California, and adopted their daughter, Quintana, in 1966. She met her future husband, John Gregory Dunne, also a writer, while living in New York in fact, Dunne edited her first novel, Run, River (1963). Didion worked at Vogue from 1956 to 1964, eventually becoming a contributing writer and assistant features editor. In her senior year at the University of California, Berkeley, she won an essay contest sponsored by Vogue and was awarded a job at the magazine’s New York office. Joan Didion was born on December 5, 1934, in Sacramento, California. ![]()
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