Joan Didion, masterful stylist and trenchant chronicler of 1960s, dies at 87.
The cause was complications from Parkinson's disease, according to a statement from Penguin Random House.
"The White Album" is a classic of literary journalism, effortlessly blending the conventions of cultural criticism, memoir and nonfiction storytelling. She was a frail woman, even in her youth, but she used her size to her advantage, saying:"I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests.”
Didion and Dunne relocated to California, where they adopted a daughter, Quintana Roo, in 1967. They were virtually inseparable collaborators, working together on screenplays for films like"The Panic in Needle Park" and"Up Close and Personal" . But for all of her gifts as a novelist, Didion may be most remembered for her elegant, incisive contributions to the New Journalism movement, which also encompassed the work of Tom Wolfe, Nora Ephron and Gay Talese.
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