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American writer (–)

Joan Didion (; December 5, – December 23, ) was an American writer and journalist. She is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism, along with Gay Talese, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Hunter S.

Thompson, and Tom Wolfe.^[1][2][3]

Didion's career began in the s after she won an essay contest sponsored by Vogue magazine.^[4] She would go on to publish essays in The Saturday Evening Post, National Review, Life, Esquire, The New York Review of Books, and The New Yorker.

Her writing during the s through the late s engaged audiences in the realities of the counterculture of the s, the Hollywood lifestyle, and the history and culture of California. Didion's political writing in the s and s concentrated on the subtext of political rhetoric and the United States's foreign policy in Latin America.^[5][6] In , she wrote the earliest mainstream media article to suggest that the