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Joan Didion, the icon of American literature hbs life from Parkinson's disease

Joan Didion, the icon of American literature hbs life from Parkinson's

Joan Didion, author of "The Year Of Magical Thinking" and "Slouching Towards Bethlehem", has died at the age of 87.

She died of complications related to Parkinson's disease at her home in New York City, her publisher said in a statement.

Didion, whose writing shaped American literature for decades, was also famous for her novels Play It As It Lays (1970) and A Book Of Common Prayer (1977), as well as essays such as On Keeping A Notebook, "Why I Write" and "Goodbye To All That," many of which ended in her essay book, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" (1968).

She won several Lifetime Achievement Awards and in 2006, she was a Pulitzer finalist for her 2005 autobiography "The Year Of Magical Thinking", about the death of her husband, John Dunne, and her subsequent mourning. .

Didion was born on December 5, 1934, in Sacramento, California. Her father, Frank Reese Didion, was an officer in the Army Air Corps, a career that forced the family to relocate considerably throughout her childhood.

Didion graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1956. During her final year, she wrote an award-winning essay that gave her a job at Vogue. There, she published the famous essay, "On Self Respect."

Joan Didion, the icon of American literature hbs life from Parkinson's
Didion and her husband Dune

In 1964, Didion married Dunne, a writer at Time.

Didion received the National Medal of Arts in 2013 from US President Barack Obama, who described her at the time as "one of the most famous American writers of her generation" and "one of the sharpest and most respected observers of American politics and culture. "

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