Joan Didion, Hammer Readings

11/5/05 -- Joan Didion has been a novelist, essayist, and screenwriter for more than three decades. She was recently honored with the Gold Medal for Belles Lettres from the American Academy of Arts and Letters among other major awards. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review and The New Yorker. Her next book The Year of Magical Thinking is a memoir of grief.
Learn more about the Hammer Museum at UCLA and Hammer Readings at www.hammer.ucla.edu.

[@robertplautz9722]

a very special encounter with a great introduction, a sympathetic audience, and the very human Great Writer, Joan Didion. thank you for this historical record

[@christafuller1647]

RIP Joan ...an inspiration

[@alekhein4855]

Rest in Peace Joan Didion. I would not have written half of what I have in this lifetime without the encouraging essence of who you were bound in lexical character.

[@jakestevens3788]

Beautiful words ....she would be proud to hear that

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