JOAN DIDION
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Dates: 1934-
Nationality: American
Literary Periods:
American Confessional Period, 1960-
Postwar Period, 1945-1999
Twentieth Century, 1900-1999
Twenty-First Century, 2000-
Literary Movements:
New Journalism
Postmodernism 1963-
BIOGRAPHY
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The Year of Magical Thinking
byCall Number: PS3554.I33 Z63 2005
Joan Didion interview from 1970s
REFERENCE & BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Biography and critical essay on the life and works of Joan Didion
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RESEARCH & CRITICISM
Books, essays, and journal articles indexed in MLA International Bibliography 
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"Joan Didion: Gender and Lacanian Tragedy" [BOOK CHAPTER]From Politics, Desire, and the Hollywood Novel by Chip Rhodes (See Part Two: The New Hollywood)
Also available in print: Miller Library PS374.H55 R47 2008 -
The Gang that Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Didion, and the New Journalism Revolution [E-BOOK]By Marc Weingarten (2006)
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"Joan Didion: The Fatal Glamor of Conspiracy" [BOOK CHAPTER]From Paradigms of Paranoia: The Culture of Conspiracy in Contemporary American Fiction by Samuel Chase Coale
Miller Library PS374.C594 C63 2005 -
"Two Cassandras: Joan Didion and Joyce Carol Oates" [BOOK CHAPTER]From Alfred Kazin's America: Critical and Personal Writings, edited by Ted Solotaroff
Miller Library PS29.K38 A25 2003 -
"Joan Didion's 'Places of the Mind'" [BOOK CHAPTER]From Mapping the Private Geography: Autobiography, Identity, and America by Gerri Reaves
Available at Bates and Bowdoin PS366.A88 R4 2001 -
"The Child and the Mother: Joan Didion, Mary Gordon, Virginia Woolf" [BOOK CHAPTER]From The Uses of Darkness: Women's Underworld Journeys, Ancient and Modern by Laurie Brands Gagné
Miller Library BT83.55 .G34 2000 -
"Narrating Place: Geography and Anxiety in Joan Didion's The White Album" [BOOK CHAPTER]From Stories of Old: The Imagined West and the Crisis of Historical Symbology in the 1970s by Mattias Bolkéus Blom
Available at Bates PS374.W4 B58 1999 -
"Moving Into the Political: Joan Didion and the Imagination of Engagement" [BOOK CHAPTER]From Through the Window, Out the Door: Women's Narratives of Departure, from Austin and Cather to Tyler, Morrison, and Didion
by Janis P. Stout | Miller Library PS374.W6 S78 1998 -
The Critical Response to Joan Didion [BOOK]Edited by Sharon Felton | Available at Bates PS3554.I33 Z6 1994
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Strategies of Reticence: Silence and Meaning in the Works of Jane Austen, Willa Cather, Katherine Anne Porter, and Joan Didion [BOOK]By Janis P. Stout | Miller Library PS374.S54 S76 1990
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Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations [BOOK]Edited by Ellen G. Friedman | Miller Library PS3554.I33 Z72 1984
PRIMARY SOURCES
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The Paris Review: Interviews [BOOK]Available at Bates PS225 .P26 2006 v.1-2
2006 interview with Joan Didion