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Joan Didion, the author of acclaimed works including Play It As It Lays and The White Album, died Thursday at the age of 87.
A portrait of American author Joan Didion as she sits in a chair in front of a bookshelf.
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Knopf confirmed to multiple news outlets that Didion died from Parkinson's disease.
Didion was a pioneer of New Journalism, a style that blended literary writing and reporting that became popular in magazines and books in the 1960s and 1970s.
One of the country's most trenchant writers was Didion. Her best-selling works of fiction, commentary, and memoir are considered modern classics by her publisher.
Her works include essays The White Album and Slouching Towards Bethlehem, a novel Play It As It Lays, and a movie A Star Is Born.
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Didion began her career writing for Vogue and The National Review. Run River was her first novel. Her essay collections were often comprised of works previously published by Didion in magazines, and centered on the culture and history of California, and Didion's own experiences. She wrote about the turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s and her own emotions. The Year of Magical Thinking won a National Book Award in 2005 and recounts the death of her husband. Their daughter, who was 39 years old at the time, died from pancreatitis. Didion was known for her small stature and thin frame, as well as her pointed style of prose and criticisms. She was awarded the National Humanities Medal by the former President in 2011. She wrote a total of 19 books, her last being the memoir Blue Lights, in which she reflected on her daughter's death.
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Eve Babitz, an author of the same time who centered Los Angeles in her work, died last week.
The New York Times reported that Joan Didion died at 87.
Joan Didion died at 87.
