![]() ![]() While she remained on the West Coast for the majority of her life, always interested in the vestiges of her California childhood, her gaze shifted outward when she went first to the University of California, Berkeley, and then on to New York City, where she was offered a job at Vogue. The descendant of pioneers who famously began their journey West with the ill-fated Donner Party, Didion was born in 1934 into the Republican traditions of rural Sacramento. Defined by her shrewd, laconic writing style, Didion’s genius lay in her ability to articulate the true and enduring alongside raw, unadorned observation. ![]() Her most famous works, which include her essay collection Slouching Towards Bethlehem, novels Play It As It Lays and A Book of Common Prayer, and memoir The Year of Magical Thinking, established her as one of the great American writers of the 21st century. 23 from complications of Parkinson’s disease. ![]() Joan Didion, whose literary prowess emerged in the 1960s with her essay “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” died in Manhattan on Dec. ![]()
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