Joan Didion leans against her Corvette Stingray ... The former’s more straightforward ascent is much better known. Didion won a Vogue essay contest as a young woman, then got a job composing ...

JOAN DIDION and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, came to L.A. from New York in the summer of 1964. Both had worked as journalists. (She for Vogue; he for Time.) Both wanted to write books.

Joan Didion, a literary icon who chronicled 60s ... Berkeley. Didion joined Vogue Magazine after graduation in 1956, leading to her career as a journalist and writer. Her novels included 1970's ...

In “Didion & Babitz,” author Lili Anolik ... the question inspired an official quiz in Vogue), she says she’s much closer to a Joan. “I’m really anally retentive in my own life.