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- Height5′ (1.52 m)
- Joan Didion was born on December 5, 1934 in Sacramento, California, USA. She was a writer, known for A Star Is Born (2018), A Star Is Born (1976) and The Last Thing He Wanted (2020). She was married to John Gregory Dunne. She died on December 23, 2021 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- SpouseJohn Gregory Dunne(January 30, 1964 - December 30, 2003) (his death, 1 child)
- Children
- RelativesJim Didion(Sibling)Griffin Dunne(Niece or Nephew)Hannah Dunne(Niece or Nephew)Dominique Dunne(Niece or Nephew)
- She was generally perceived as not just a literary giant, but also a cultural icon.
- Didion's best-selling memoir "The Year of Magical Thinking" (2006) was later adapted for stage with Vanessa Redgrave portraying the author.
- Before his career ever took off, Harrison Ford was a personal carpenter to the Dunne family who became so close, Didion would send him first editions of her books as Christmas gifts.
- Sister-in-law of Dominick Dunne.
- B.A. from U.C. Berkeley
- When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something . . . but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.
- [on writing] The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.
- [on the death of her adopted daughter] I didn't take seriously how troubled she was. She was troubled from very early, certainly from the time she was five or six. If you come home and your child tells you that she's called a mental institution--that should have triggered something other than amusement on my part.
- I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned by someone else.
- A Star Is Born (1976) - $125,000 +10% of profits
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