Creative Nonfiction: Joan Didion

All Books by: 

Creative Nonfiction: Slouching towards Bethlehem, 1968, The White Album, 1979, Salvador, 1983, Joan Didion: Essays and Conversations, 1984 (edited by Ellen G. Friedman), Miami, 1987, After Henry, 1992 (also known as Sentimental Journeys, 1992), Political Fictions, 2001, Fixed Ideas: America since 9.11, 2003, Where I Was From, 2003, The Year of Magical Thinking, 2005, We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live, 2006, Blue Nights, 2011, South and West: From a Notebook, 2017

Long Fiction: Run River, 1963, Play It as It Lays, 1970, A Book of Common Prayer, 1977, Democracy, 1984, The Last Thing He Wanted, 1996

Short Fiction: Telling Stories, 1978

Drama: The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play, 2007

Screenplays: The Panic in Needle Park, 1971 (with John Gregory Dunne), Play It as It Lays, 1972 (with Dunne), A Star Is Born, 1976 (with Dunne and Frank Pierson), True Confessions, 1981 (with Dunne), Up Close and Personal, 1996 (with Dunne)

Teleplays: Hills Like White Elephants, 1990 (with John Gregory Dunne), Broken Trust, 1995 (with Dunne)

This research guide was created by Emma Cowan, English Department Intern, Gumberg Library, March 2025. 

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