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Joan Didion

Biographical

This is a profile of Didion from Barnard for a speech she gave there. You'll also find a photo there. What is the focus of the information on this page?

Here's Didion's entry at Infoplease.com. How does the information presented here differ from that in the link above? Do you consider the info here trustworthy? How can you tell such things about internet resources?

Here's a Didion bibliography and some links to an excerpt from Slouching Towards Bethlehem and to an external page. What kinds of things can you learn from just studying a bibliography? What are the limitations of bibliographies?

Cultural

This is a review of Didion's novel The Last Thing He Wanted. Based on the review, do you want to read this book? Can you make any links to other works that you've read by this author?

Did you know that this author has been a fairly frequent contributor to film? Here is a Didion filmography. Have you seen any of these pictures?

This is a photo of Didion at a women writers photo gallery. Do you know any of the other writers featured there? How would you go about gathering information on them?

Here's an essay by a writer who explains why she doesn't like Didion. What do you think of this author's argument?

Bibliographical

Here is an interview with Didion from Salon about her novel The Last Thing He Wanted. She also talks about the impact of technology on her writing. Check it out!

Didion replies here to a letter regarding an essay of hers about public prayer that appeared in the New York Review of Books. On which side of this issue do you find yourself? Which writer makes a better case on this page? Does one answer affect the other?

This page has a link to Didion reading from her essay "In El Salvador: Soluciones. " What do you make of her reading? Is it as easy to absorb her ideas in this format as it is to read them?