Joan Didion

 

 Detached observer of American society and political life through her collections of journalism, novels and screenwriting

 

"The greater constant in Didion’s work, though, was the intersection of public and private mood with place – Hawaii febrile in tropical rain, Los Angeles fractious as the Santa Ana winds blew through. Readers came to know the homes she had passed through – the Malibu beach premises on the edge of the fire season burn zone, the “house in a part of Hollywood that had once been expensive and was now described as a ‘senseless killing neighbourhood’”, the Manhattan apartment with the Cy Twombly artwork, plus a travel itinerary of grand hotels."

read the obit by Veronica Hornwell

Joan Didion obituary | Joan Didion | The Guardian