The World According to Joan Didion

The World According to Joan Didion is a 2021 book by Evelyn McDonnell that explores the life, craft, and legacy of Joan Didion, a revered and influential writer known for her keen observation and attention to detail. The book offers an illustrated journey through Didion's life, tracing the path she carved from Sacramento to Manhattan, and explores her work through chapters keyed to her singular physical motifs. McDonnell reveals the world as Didion saw it and provides a literary companion for those embarking on new journeys and a guide to innovative ways of being.

Format: Hardback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 28 September 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Joan Didion was a writer's writer; not only a groundbreaking journalist, essayist, novelist, and screenwriter, but a keen observer who honed her sights on life's telling details. Her insights continue to influence creatives and admirers, encouraging them to become close observers of the world, unsentimental critics, and meticulous stylists.

An antidote to a global view that narrows our vision to the smallest screens, The World According To Joan Didion is a meditation on the people, places, and objects that propelled Didion's prose and an invitation to journalists, storytellers, and life adventurers to "throw themselves into the convulsions of the world," as she once said.

Evelyn McDonnell, the acclaimed journalist, essayist, critic, feminist, native Californian, and university professor who regularly teaches Didion's work, is attuned to interpret Didion's vision for readers today. Inspired by Didion's own words—from her works both published and unpublished—and informed by the people who knew Didion and those whose lives she shaped, The World According to Joan Didion is an illustrated journey through her life, tracing the path she carved from Sacramento, Portuguese Bend, Los Angeles, and Malibu to Manhattan, Miami, and Hawaii. McDonnell reveals the world as it was seen through Didion's eyes and explores her work in chapters keyed to the singular physical motifs of her writing: Snake. Typewriter. Hotel. Notebook. Girl. Etc.

One of the first books to be published after the revered writer's death in 2021, The World According to Joan Didion is a .

Weight: 370g
Dimension: 142 x 227 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780008650896