Joan Didion, the intensely personal journalist and author who teamed with her late husband John Gregory Dunne to write screenplays for such films as 'The Panic in Needle Park' and 'True Confessions,' has died. She was 87 More on her legacy:
Joan Didion, the intensely personal journalist and author who teamed with her late husband John Gregory Dunne to write the screenplays for such films asThe Year of Magical Thinking
documented her struggle to cope with the sudden 2003 death of Dunne and was adapted as a one-woman Broadway play, died Thursday at her home in New York due to complications from Parkinson’s, Didion’s publisher, Knopf, toldwon the National Book Award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, sold in excess of a million copies and spent more than 24 weeks on“People would stop me in airports and tell me what it had done for them,” she“Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the...
She added: “I found it amazingly easy to write. It was like sitting down and crying. I didn’t even have the sense that I was writing it. I’m usually very conscious of the rhythm of sentences and how that’s working. I didn’t even give that any thought.”Didion then adapted her memoir for the Broadway play in 2007 that was directed by David Hare and starred Vanessa Redgrave as Didion; the actress received a best actress Tony nomination for her performance.
Didion said of the theatrical version: “[Producer] Scott Rudin came to me and said that he thought it would make a good one-woman play, and I resisted this idea. But he kept talking about it; and, after a while, I started thinking it would be an interesting thing to do, an interesting thing to try. I’ve never written a play or tried to write a play. I thought it would be an interesting exercise, and it has been.”. They married in 1964 and moved to Los Angeles that year to become screenwriters.
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