Joan Didion (1934–2021)
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Sobre El Autor
Born in Sacramento, California, on December 5, 1934, Joan Didion received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1956. She wrote for Vogue from 1956 to 1963, and was visiting regent's lecturer in English at the University of California, Berkeley in 1976. Didion also published novels, mostrar más short stories, social commentary, and essays. Her work often comments on social disorder. Didion wrote for years on her native California; from there her perspective broadened and turned to the countries of Central America and Southeast Asia. Her novels include Democracy (1984) and The Last Thing He Wanted (1996). Well known nonfiction titles include Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968), The White Album (1979), The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) and Blue Nights (2011). In 1971 Joan Didion was nominated for the National Book Award in fiction for Play It As It Lays. In 1981 she received the American Book Award in nonfiction, and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Prize in nonfiction for The White Album. Didion has received a great deal of recognition for The Year of Magical Thinking, which was awarded the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2005. In 2007, Didion received the National Book Foundation's annual Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. In 2009, Didion was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree by Harvard University. On July 3, 2013 the White House announced Didion was one of the recipients of the National Medals of Arts and Humanities presented by President Barack Obama. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras de Joan Didion
Telling Stories (Series of Keepsakes Issued by the Friends of Bancroft Library, No. 26) (1978) 9 copias
After Henry {essay} 6 copias
Goodbye to All That 4 copias
On Self-Respect 2 copias
Didion, Joan Archive 2 copias
“Quiet Days in Malibu” 1 copia
White Album 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Boom! Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today (2007) — Contribuidor — 897 copias
The Writer on Her Work, Volume I: Contemporary Women Writers Reflect on their Art and Situation (1980) — Contribuidor — 180 copias
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Contribuidor — 121 copias
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Contribuidor — 93 copias
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contribuidor — 83 copias
About Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, Poetry, and Essays (1973) — Contribuidor — 26 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Didion, Joan
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1934-12-05
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2021-12-23
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Sacramento, Californië, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- Parkinson's disease
- Lugares de residencia
- New York, New York, USA
- Educación
- University of California, Berkeley
- Ocupaciones
- writer
journalist - Relaciones
- Dunne, John Gregory (echtgenoot)
Dunne, Dominick (schoonbroer)
Dunne, Quintana Roo (dochter) - Organizaciones
- Vogue
- Premios y honores
- National Humanities Medal (2012)
PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award (2013)
National Book Foundation Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (2007)
Evelyn F. Burkey Award (2007)
Prix Medicis Essais (2007)
American Philosophical Society (2006) (mostrar todos 14)
American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award (2006)
National Book Award for Nonfiction (2005)
Gold Medal, American Academy of Arts and Letters (2005)
Robert Kirsch Award (2005)
Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award (2005)
St Louis Literary Award (2002)
Edward MacDowell Medal (1996)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1981) - Agente
- Lynn Nesbit (Janklow and Nesbit)
Henry Robbins
Miembros
Debates
Joan Didion? en Legacy Libraries (noviembre 2022)
Which Joan Didion book should I read first? en Book talk (noviembre 2019)
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- También por
- 30
- Miembros
- 30,451
- Popularidad
- #652
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 670
- ISBNs
- 439
- Idiomas
- 17
- Favorito
- 138