• April 2

  What We Knew Without Knowing

  

  newyorker.com

  Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne met in the late fifties, when she was working at...

  Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne met in the late fifties, when she was working at Vogue and he at Time. They married in 1964, and in 1966 they adopted a baby girl, giving her a name from the Yucatán: Quintana Roo. Together, Didion and Dunne lived out one of the most collaborative literary marriages in American his...

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• March 27

  For Joan Didion, Mementos of Her Daughter’s Childhood Became Material

  

  nytimes.com

  The opening of the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne archives in the New York Public...

  The opening of the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne archives in the New York Public Library reveals unseen aspects of their family life, and approach to writing.

  archives and recordsbooks and literaturedidion joandunne john gregorynew york public library

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• February 23

  Literary gold … or betrayal of trust? Joan Didion journal opens ethical minefield

  

  theguardian.com

  Soon we can all read the late author’s private notes about her therapy. But should we?In...

  Soon we can all read the late author’s private notes about her therapy. But should we?In 1998, the late journalist Joan Didion wrote a scathing essay about the posthumous publication of True at First Light, a travel journal and fictional memoir by Ernest Hemingway, 38 years after the author killed himself. “This is a man to whom words mattered. He worked at them, he...

  booksculturejoan didionmental healthpublishing

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