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December 27, 2021

Literary Icon Joan Didion Dies at 87
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Literary icon Joan Didion has died after a battle with Parkinson's
disease. She was 87 years old. The best-selling novelist, journalist and
essayist came to prominence with a collection of articles about culture
and life in 1960s California. Many of Didion's works have received
several honors and are considered to be modern classics. Didion is best
known for books including "Salvador," "Play It as It Lays," "The White
Album" and "The Year of Magical Thinking," for which she won the
Pulitzer Prize.


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