Joan Didion’s Death – Cause and Date
Born (Birthday) December 5, 1934
Death Date December 23, 2021
Age of Death 87 years
Cause of Death Parkinson's Disease
Profession Novelist
The novelist Joan Didion died at the age of 87. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
A renowned novelist, memoir writer, and literary journalist, she is best known for her sociologically-themed works that explore the unraveling of American culture and morality. Her best known works include Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968), Play It As It Lays (1970), Where I Was From (2003), and The Year of Magical Thinking (2005).
Her marriage to Times writer John Gregory Dunne lasted from 1964 until his death in 2003. She and Dunne adopted a daughter, Quintana Roo Dunne. Didion’s 2005 memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking, details her experiences of losing both her husband and her thirty-nine-year-old daughter within a year’s time.
How did Joan Didion die?
American novelist, journalist and essayist Joan Didion died on Thursday at her home in New York at age 87 from Parkinson’s disease, according to Knopf publicist Paul Bogaards.
Quotes
"In Brentwood we had a big safe-deposit box to put manuscripts in if we left town during fire season. It was such a big box that we never bothered to clean it out.
"When I was in fact a child, six and seven and eight years old, I was utterly baffled by the enthusiasm with which my cousin Brenda, a year and a half younger, accepted her mother’s definition of her as someone who needed to go to bed at six-thirty and finish every bite of three vegetables, one of them yellow, with every meal.
"Was there ever in anyone’s life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?
"The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
"The truth is, it’s easier for me to write than talk… to express the state I’m in at any time.