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Joan Didion Biography

Joan Didion Biography, Age, Net Worth, Husband, Cause of Death, Son, Daughter, books, Quotes & Others

Joan Didion was an American writer. She has launched her career in 1960 after winning an essay contest sponsored by Vogue magazine. She has published so many books in her life. She died on 23 December 2021. If you wanted to know more about Joan Didion Biography, Age, Net Worth, Husband, Cause of Death, Son, Daughter, books, Quotes & Others, read the complete article below.

Cause of Joan Didion Death

Joan Didion died from Parkinson’s disease at her home in Manhattan on 23 December 2021, at the age of 87 years.

Joan Didion Biography

Joan Didion was born on 5 December 1934 in Sacramento, California. She was the daughter of Frank Reese and Eduene Didion. She has shown her interest in writing since the age of 5.

Joan Didion received a degree of Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of California, Berkeley in 1956.

During her senior year, she won first place in the “Prix de Paris” essay contest sponsored by Vogue and was awarded a job as a research assistant at the magazine, has written a story on the San Francisco architect William Wilson Wurster.

Full NameJoan Didion
Nick NameDidion
Date of Birth5 December 1934
Died on23 December 2021
Age87 Years
Birth PlaceSacramento, California, USA
ProfessionAuthor, Writer
NationalityAmerican
HometownSacramento, California, USA
ReligionChristan
Education QualificationGraduate

Joan Didion Age

Joan Didion was born on 5 December 1934 in Sacramento, California, USA. She died on 23 December 2021. Her age is 87 till Nov,21.

Joan Didion Husband

Joan Didion married John Gregory Dunne.

Joan Didion Daughter/son/kids

Quintana Roo Dunne was her daughter. Roo takes in the ocean view with her parents, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion in Malibu in 1976. Quintana Roo fell ill in 2003, and her father had a fatal heart attack several days later. Blue Nights are Didion’s elegy for her daughter who died in 2005 at age 39 years old.

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Joan Didion Height

Joan Didion was a smart and good-looking author. She has a very toned body. She stands at 5 feet 5 inches tall which is equivalent to 1.65 meters tall.

Joan Didion Net Worth

Joan Didion’s net worth is estimated to be around $30 to 40 million US dollars.

Joan Didion Books | Joan Didion Amazon

Here are some of her  famous books

  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem
  • The Year of Magical Thinking
  • Play It as It Lays
  • Blue Nights
  • The White Album
  • Where I Was From
  • Miami
  • We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order To Live: Collected Nonfiction

Joan Didion Quotes

Joan’s some of her most famous quotes

  • To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
  • We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
  • The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
  • I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
  • Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
  • Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
  • Writers are always selling somebody out.
  • Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.
  • We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
  • You have to pick the places you don’t walk away from.

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