A revelatory new book is as penetrating and hardboiled about the late Joan Didion as she was about others. The writing icon’s acclaimed career was in key part defined by living in, working with and ...

Their connection is a quarter-century in the making, deepened by the shared experiences of marriage, motherhood and grief — a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The question haunting Joan Didion's "Notes to John" is whether such a private person would have wanted her intimate, unedited ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Chloe Cushman / For The Times) To live in Los Angeles is to live in Joan Didion’s world. On what would have been the writer’s ...

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Reading the newly released “Notes to John,” it’s hard not to wonder how the late author Joan Didion would feel about having her personal notes from a series of painful therapy sessions converted into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joan Didion's diary of post-therapy notes, addressed to her husband, John Gregory Dunne, is going to be published in "Notes to ...

Joan Didion leans against her Corvette Stingray, a cigarette perched between her fingers. Her unsparing, unsmiling gaze seems to sear through the lens of photographer Julian Wasser’s camera, and one ...

At some point in the last decade, Joan Didion’s famed elusiveness has evolved into a sort of dare. She has been the subject of a documentary, five biographies, and an exhibition at the Hammer Museum ...

In November 1999, writer Joan Didion started seeing Roger MacKinnon, a New York psychiatrist, on the recommendation of the psychiatrist who was treating her daughter Quintana for borderline ...

The question haunting Joan Didion's "Notes to John" is whether such a private person would have wanted her intimate, unedited reflections (including parental doubts) to be shared with readers. (Cal ...