Tag: Joan Didion
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The White Album is the title of Joan Didion‘s book of essays, published in 1979. The first essay is titled the same as the book, or rather, Didion arranged the first essay to be the one who would take the book’s title. It covers the years 1968 to 1978, when Didion was working as a…
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Joan’s ESP told her that something was abnormal Joan Didion wrote that her husband, John Dunne, asked her to write a quote for his use, but later, he changed his mind, and told her she could use his quote for her own book. “When I gave him the note the next day he said “You…
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John Gregory Dunne, Joan Didion’s husband, died at their home, an apartment in New York. He suffered a sudden, massive coronary attack. It was a very stressful period for Joan as her only child, Quintana, a daughter, had just been admitted into hospital, for pneumonia and it turned into sepsis. Quintana had been 5 days…