She was one of the leading figures of the new journalism, a profession many embarked on after reading her brilliant prose. Award-winning author, respected intellectual, American Joan Didion died on December 23 at the age of 87.
After documenting the counter-cultural movement in the 1960s, she migrated to more socio-political concerns.
Published in 2005, his autobiographical essay The year of magical thinking, on mourning for her spouse, won her, among others, the National Book Award and the Medici Prize.
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