![]() ![]() ![]() Author Joan Didion in her New York apartment in 2007, before being interviewed for a short promotional film for David Halberstam's "The Coldest Winter," the final book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was killed earlier that year in a California car accident.ĪP Photo/Kathy Willens Joan Didion died on December 23, 2021, and by Christmas internet searches were returning page after page of obituaries that described her as a “peerless prose stylist.” She has long been celebrated as a journalist, essayist, novelist and memoirist, and plaudits like “peerless prose stylist” began in the early 1970s, especially when Tom Wolfe included her in his 1973 anthology “The New Journalism.” ![]()
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