Writing • AGE 87
Joan Didion was an American writer. In the late 1960s, Didion's reportage brought Californian subcultures to wider attention. Her political writing often concentrated on the subtext of rhetoric.


The Last Thing He Wanted
Novel
2020

A Star Is Born
Original Film Writer
2018

Out of My Head
2017

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
Self
2017

The 50 Year Argument
Herself
2014

Up Close & Personal
Screenplay
1996

Broken Trust
Writer
1995

Shotgun Freeway: Drives Through Lost L.A.
self
1995

Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
Writer
1990

True Confessions
Screenplay
1981

A Star Is Born
Screenplay
1976

Play It as It Lays
Screenplay
1972

The Panic in Needle Park
Screenplay
1971

Today
Self
1952