Joan Didion (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
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Joan Didion is respected as a novelist, but she is even more highly acclaimed as an essayist. Her career as a writer was launched by a piece of nonfiction; in 1956, during her senior year at the University of California at Berkeley, her article on the San Francisco architect William Wilson Wurster won Vogue’s Prix de Paris contest for young writers, and she was awarded a job with that magazine. Although she resigned her position at Vogue in 1963 to devote more time to her fiction, she continued as a film critic for the magazine and began...
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