Where I Was From

essays by Didion

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discussed in biography

  • Joan Didion, 1970
    In Joan Didion: Memoirs and deaths of husband and daughter

    Where I Was From (2003) pays homage to the peculiarities and history of her home state. After Dunne’s death in 2003, she wrote The Year of Magical Thinking (2005), in which she recounts their marriage and mourns her loss. The memoir won a National Book…

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