Michiko Kakutani: Joan Didion cast a prophetic eye on America

California-born writer always knew something was out of sync in this country.

(Sara Krulwich | The New York Times) The author Joan Didion in New York, Jan. 5, 2007. Didion, whose mordant dispatches on California culture and the chaos of the 1960s established her as a leading exponent of the New Journalism, died at home in Manhattan on Dec. 23, 2021. She was 87.

Michiko Kakutani: Joan Didion cast a prophetic eye on America

California-born writer always knew something was out of sync in this country.

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