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Article: Joan Didion. (interview with writer)(Interview)
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- September 1, 1996
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With her precision prose and her powers of observation, Joan Didion's writing consistently shines a light on society. This month brings the publication of her much-anticipated new novel, and it's sure to illuminate a few more angles on American life
As a person, Joan Didion is as elegant and angular as her prose. Inviting me into the apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side that she shares with her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, and their daughter, Quintana, Didion's welcome is at once warm and genuine. What her civility and enduring beauty do not betray, however, is a mind that has influenced American writing over the past four decades like few others.
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