Joan Didion

Joan Didion was born in California. She has been a novelist, essayist and screenwriter and her books include Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, Salvador and the memoir Where I Was From. The Year of Magical Thinking, written after the sudden death of her husband, won the 2005 National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography/Memoir and became a best-seller. In 2009, Didion was made an honorary Doctors of Letters by Harvard University. She lives in New York.