Joan Didion(1934-2021)

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Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (2017)

Joan Didion was born on 5 December 1934 in Sacramento, California, USA. She was a writer, known for A Star Is Born (2018), A Star Is Born (1976) and Up Close & Personal (1996). She was married to John Gregory Dunne. She died on 23 December 2021 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

7.6

6.1

6.1

4.4

The Last Thing He Wanted
4.4
- based on the book by
- 2020
A Star Is Born
7.6
- based on the 1976 screenplay by
- 2018
Up Close & Personal
6.1
- written by
- 1996
Broken Trust
5.7
TV Movie
- teleplay
- 1995
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
5.2
TV Movie
- written for television by (segment Hills Like White Elephants)
- 1990
True Confessions
6.3
- screenplay
- 1981
A Star Is Born
6.1
- screenplay by
- 1976
Play It As It Lays
6.3
- novel "Play It As It Lays"
- screenplay
- 1972
Such Good Friends
6.0
- Writer (uncredited)
- 1971
The Panic in Needle Park
7.1
- screenplay
- 1971
Kraft Suspense Theatre
7.7
TV Series
- story
- 1965

Trivia
She was generally perceived as not just a literary giant, but also a cultural icon.

Quotes
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something . . . but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.