Joan Didion died today after a prolonged illness. The author, journalist, and style icon was 87 years old.
“It is easy to see the beginnings of things,” Joan Didion once wrote, “and harder to see the ends.” That author, journalist, style icon, and north star for a certain type of literary young person died today after a prolonged illness. She was 87 years old.
Didion may have been famous since the late 1960s, but hers was the rare sort of celebrity that never dampened her respectability. Not even modeling in fashion advertisements could shake her status within the literary world, nor affect the particular influence she held for the millions of readers who attempted to ape her style over the years.
Didion was born in Sacramento, California, in 1934, a fifth-generation Californian and the descendant of a pioneer family—her ancestors traveled West at least part of the way with the Donner Party—and she was herself frequently depicted as a kind of pioneer, cutting new paths through the American landscape with her writing and illuminating Los Angeles and San Francisco in the 1960s with a rare incision.
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