![]() ![]() The trailer for the film shows her diligently still writing at her desk. ![]() In the trailer for the film, Dunne calls Didion “perhaps the most influential American writer alive”, and it’s hard to disagree.Īt almost 80 years old, Didion has barely slowed down. In 2013, President Obama awarded her the National Medals of Arts and Humanities. ![]() Since then she has written five novels, a play, a handful of screenplays and eight books of essays, including The Year of Magical Thinking, which won the National Book Award for nonfiction and cemented her reputation as one of the most esteemed writers of our time. Upon moving to California with her husband John Gregory Dunne, Didion published what many consider her pre-eminent work, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, a pitch perfect and searing collection of magazine essays. Didion published her first novel in 1963, at the age of 29, while she was still working her way up the masthead at Vogue. ![]()
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