Novelist Joan Didion

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Joan Didion

Living place: Sacramento

Birthday: 5-12-1934 (90 years old)

Population of US 1934: 126,373,773

Global rank: #56027

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Who is Novelist Joan Didion?
A prolific novelist, memoir writer, and literary journalist, she is known for her sociologically thematic work that explores America's cultural and moral dismantling. Her most famous works include slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968), Play It As It Born (1970), Where I Was From (2003), and The Year of Thinking Magical (2005).
She contributed ideas and writing to the New Journalism movement and was a recipient of both the National Book Foundation Medal for Outstanding Contribution to American Letters and the National Medal of Arts and Humanities.
 
 

Young / Before famous

She grew up in Sacramento, California and began writing at age five. She graduated from the University of California-Berkeley with a degree in English and later worked as a gifted editor at Vogue.

Family life info

Her marriage to Times author John Gregory Dunne lasted from 1964 until his death in 2003. She and Dunne adopted a daughter, Quintana Roo Dunne. Didion's 2005 memoir, The Five Thinking Magical, details the experience of losing both her husband and thirty-nine-year-old daughter during her one-year period.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Novelist Joan Didion?
She was greatly encouraged in her writing by her husband and fellow writer, John Gregory Dunne.

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When was Novelist Joan Didion born?
Joan Didion birthday 5-12-1934 (at the age of 90).
Where is Novelist Joan Didion's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Joan Didion was born in Sacramento, California- United States. is a Novelist, whose Zodiac is Sagittarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Dog. Joan Didion's global rank is 56027 and whose rank is 479 in list of famous Novelist. Population of US in 1934 is about 126,373,773 persons.
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Events in 1934 and 5-12

Events in US in the birth year of Joan Didion

  • Securities Exchange Act is passed, establishing the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  • Federal Communications Commission is established to regulate communications.
  • Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker ambushed by lawmen in Louisiana. John Dillinger is shot outside Chicago movie theater.
  • Dust storms ruin about 100 million acres and damage another 200 million acres of cropland in Kansas, Texas, Colorado, and Oklahoma ("Dust Bowl").

Birthday Joan Didion (5-12) in history

  • Day 5-12 year 1776: The oldest academic honour society in the United States, Phi Beta Kappa, was founded at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
  • Day 5-12 year 1791: The great composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart pass away in Vienna, Austria, at age 35.
  • Day 5-12 year 1848: President Polk triggered the Gold Rush of 1848 by confirming that gold had been discovered in California.
  • Day 5-12 year 1872: Having left New York on Nov. 5, the brigantine Mary Celeste was found adrift off Portugal with everyone aboard mysteriously missing.
  • Day 5-12 year 1933: The 21st Amendment to the Constitution, repealing prohibition, was ratified.
  • Day 5-12 year 1955: The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merged to form the AFL-CIO.
  • Day 5-12 year 2002: At Sen. Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday celebration, Senate Republican leader Trent Lott praised Thurmond's 1948 segregationist presidential bid. Lott subsequently resigned his leadership position.
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