Joan Didion bibliography
Appearance
List of works by or about the American writer Joan Didion.
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Novels
- Run, River (1963)
- Play It as It Lays (1970)
- A Book of Common Prayer (1977)
- Democracy (1984)
- The Last Thing He Wanted (1996)
Nonfiction
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968)
- The White Album (1979)
- Salvador (1983)
- Miami (1987)
- After Henry (1992)
- Political Fictions (2001)
- Where I Was From (2003)
- Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11 (2003; preface by Frank Rich)
- Vintage Didion (2004; selected excerpts of previous works)
- The Year of Magical Thinking (2005)
- We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (2006; includes her first seven volumes of nonfiction)
- Blue Nights (2011) ISBN 9780307267672
- South and West: From a Notebook (2017) ISBN 9781524732790
- Let Me Tell You What I Mean (2021)
Screenplays and plays
- Didion, Joan & John Gregory Dunne (1971). The panic in Needle Park (Motion picture). Directed by Jerry Schatzberg.[1]
- Play It as It Lays (1972) (with John Gregory Dunne and based on her novel)
- A Star Is Born (1976) (with John Gregory Dunne)
- True Confessions (1981) (with John Gregory Dunne and based on his novel)
- Up Close & Personal (1996) (with John Gregory Dunne)
- As it Happens (2012) (with Todd Field)
- The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) (a stage play based on her book)
Essays and reporting
- "Everywoman.com : getting out of the house with Martha Stewart". The Critics. A Critic at Large. February 21 & 28, 2000. The New Yorker. 97 (27): 68–73. September 6, 2021.[2]
Critical studies and reviews of Didion's work
- Friedman, Ellen G., ed. (1984). Joan Didion : essays & conversations. Princeton, N.J.: Ontario Review Press.
Notes
- ^ Based on the novel by James Mills.
- ^ Title in the online table of contents is "The promises Martha Stewart made—and why we wanted to believe them"; originally published in the February 21 & 28, 2000 issue.