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Five Chances To Get To Know More About the Inscrutable Joan Didion

Biographers of subjects like Didion look for that other self that the public prose conceals. Her unsmiling face is the evidence of a writer who spared no one, not even herself.

Joan Didion in 1970 at Los Angeles.
Joan Didion in 1970 at Los Angeles. Kathleen Ballard, Los Angeles Times, UCLA Library via Wikimedia Commons

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