She died at her home in Manhattan, of Parkinson's disease, according to her publisher, Knopf.
, has died at 87, the. The official cause was Parkinson’s disease, according to an official statement from Paul Bogaards at her publisher, Knopf.Didion’s legacy is enormous and impossible to parse. As one of the progenitors of New Journalism, her work has defined the way writing and journalism has necessarily evolved. California, her home state, was her muse, and some of Didion’s best work are her essays and fiction that interrogates what it means to be Californian.
mistic essays that would come to define her career. Didion married Gregory Dunne in 1964, and as a couple, the two embodied an idiosyncratic California cool as writers and as a unit. Didion and Dunne wrote the screenplay forwhich introduced the world to Al Pacino; more importantly, perhaps, they also rewrote the screenplay for, starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson.
is a slim elegy for her husband, Gregory, who died of a heart attack in 2003, and catalogues the depths of her grief in the wake of his death. Two years after Dunne’s death, her adopted daughter, Quintana Roo died of pancreatic cancer.tackles the grief of her daughter’s death. Both are useful texts for times of great sorrow, and no matter what you might think of Didion’s writing, persona, or public perception, her talent is undeniable.
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