Joan Didion: “You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.”


Sacramento, California 1894.
She was born in the United States, and start writing at five years old. Then she went to the University of California to study English. When she was in her senior year, her mother showed her a competition from young writers of the Vogue magazine. She won, so she moved to New York and start working at the magazine. On the other side, she start writing novels, her first work was Run, River. The writer John Gregory Dunne edited her book, a few years later they got married. Both lived from writing.
In her novels and essays, Didion writes about the disintegration of United States morals and cultural choices, always with a critical eye.  Besides she lived in the United States in the 60’s and 70`s so her work is a testimony of that decades. In her novels and essays you can highlight: The year of magical thinking, the white album and Blue Nights.
I choose her because of her talent to observe and the quality to find what to write about, besides her  way she narrate is amazing.    


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  1. Aleister Quezada20 de julio de 2018 a las 2:32 p.m.

    She looks really cool! I think that she got a lot of stories to tell! I want to read Blue nights!

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  2. Marianaytu20 de julio de 2018 a las 2:39 p.m.

    I love that the woman has a critical eye always. I didn't know Joan Didion, but she life is very interesting.

    Girl power!!! :)

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