Author

Joan Didion

24 books, mostly essays, for Audible Studios and Random House Audio, 2005–2025

Joan Didion (1934–2021) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist, memoirist, and screenwriter. After winning Vogue’s essay contest in 1956, she began a long writing career that included novels such as Run River and Play It as It Lays, influential essay collections including Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album, political reportage, and acclaimed memoirs such as The Year of Magical Thinking. Her precise, unsentimental prose explored American culture, politics, family, grief, and loss.