Joan Didion

For example, in the book you compare the search for identity and the construction of narrative, recalling the Joan Didion line "We tell ourselves stories in order to live."

L.A. EVENT & GUEST INTERVIEW: A.M. HOMES TEV 2008

For example, in the book you compare the search for identity and the construction of narrative, recalling the Joan Didion line "We tell ourselves stories in order to live."

The Elegant Variation: TEV 2008

There are no teasers about what's inside, just a quote from Ms. Wixson that suggests she will never be known as the Joan Didion of her trade.

NYT > Home Page By ERIC WILSON 2011

But flourishes of black humor punctuate the drumbeat of grief, setting the book apart from works such as Joan Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinking."

The Short List 2011

I didn't neg until the finals (21-0 going in), so no really embarrassing negs, although my early buzz in the finals with "Joan Didion," (off clues about a successful writing career in the '60s and a shift to movies) wasn't fun, when I realized too late that they were actually asking a question about Nora Ephron.

Weekend trash report yendi 2005

Among these scribbling spouses are Nora Ephron and Nicholas Pileggi, Stephen King and Tabitha King (who are also the parents of two author sons), and Joan Didion and the late John Gregory Dunne (whose late brother Dominick was an author, too).

Dave Astor: Famous Authors Related by Blood or Marriage Dave Astor 2011

Just as a foreign correspondent sets out to understand everything about a new country once he is posted there, Joan Didion embarked in 2004 on a mission to record all the contours of the grief she experienced after witnessing the death of John Gregory Dunne, her husband of nearly 40 years.

A Mother's Love And Laments 2011

He was witty and flamboyant, though his slight stature and lisping, babyish speech didn't entirely mesh with his reputation as a literary powerhouse who, along with Tom Wolfe and Joan Didion, invented the New Journalism.

Susan Dormady Eisenberg: Why Capote's A Christmas Memory Is an Enduring Gift for All Seasons Susan Dormady Eisenberg 2011

Among these scribbling spouses are Nora Ephron and Nicholas Pileggi, Stephen King and Tabitha King (who are also the parents of two author sons), and Joan Didion and the late John Gregory Dunne (whose late brother Dominick was an author, too).

Dave Astor: Famous Authors Related by Blood or Marriage Dave Astor 2011

Among these scribbling spouses are Nora Ephron and Nicholas Pileggi, Stephen King and Tabitha King (who are also the parents of two author sons), and Joan Didion and the late John Gregory Dunne (whose late brother Dominick was an author, too).

Dave Astor: Famous Authors Related by Blood or Marriage Dave Astor 2011