List of Famous people with last name Didion

Joan Didion

First Name Joan
Last Name Didion
Born on December 5, 1934
Died on December 23, 2021 (aged 87)

Joan Didion is an American writer who launched her career in the 1960s after winning an essay contest sponsored by Vogue magazine. Didion's writing during the 1960s through the late 1970s engaged audiences in the realities of the counterculture of the 1960s and the Hollywood lifestyle. Her political writing often concentrated on the subtext of political and social rhetoric. In 1991, she wrote the earliest mainstream media article to suggest the Central Park Five had been wrongfully convicted. In 2005, she won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography/Autobiography for The Year of Magical Thinking. She later adapted the book into a play, which premiered on Broadway in 2007. In 2017, Didion was profiled in the Netflix documentary The Center Will Not Hold, directed by her nephew Griffin Dunne.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her
    index: 1x 0.0366051197052s
fmsppl-page-output: 1x 0.021991968154907s
t_/pages/list-of-people: 1x 0.021942138671875s
router_page: 1x 0.013745069503784s
list-of-people-content: 1x 0.012866020202637s
t_/common/header: 1x 0.010776042938232s
qids: 2x 0.0092189311981201s
t_/blocks/list-of-people: 1x 0.0054519176483154s
t_/blocks/person-card: 1x 0.0053830146789551s
headline: 2x 0.0038812160491943s
t_/common/footer: 1x 0.00050020217895508s
t_/common/head: 1x 0.00049090385437012s
head-facts: 1x 0.00046014785766602s
t_/blocks/switcher: 1x 2.4080276489258E-5s
related: 1x 5.0067901611328E-6s
using-qids-cache: 1x 9.5367431640625E-7s
----- END OF DUMP (2025-07-23 04:48:07)  -----