Joan Didion Audio & Video

A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It As It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation....

First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s....

Universally acclaimed from the time it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for decades as a stylistic masterpiece....

In this intensely personal, deeply moving account—part memoir, part journalism—the author of Slouching Towards Bethlehem exposes the layers and facets of her life over a year of dramatic and unexpected events.

Joan Didion dwells on mortality throughout her most recent memoir, Blue Nights, in which she tries to cope with, or at least understand, the loss of her daughter, Quintana Roo.

In this conversation with American writer Joan Didion, she discusses her 2001 collection of essays Political Fictions in which she explores the disconnect between the political class and the American public.

An hour conversation with author and screenwriter Joan Didion in which she discusses her book "The Year of Magical Thinking"…

From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter....

Joan Didion's memoir The Year of Magical Thinking is about grieving for her husband, fellow writer John Gregory Dunne. He died suddenly at the end of 2003, while their daughter was hospitalized with pneumonia.

Ms. Didion talked about her career from 1963 to 1996 and about the body of work she produced during that period, including 5 works of fiction and 5 works of non-fiction.