Joan Didion (; December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021) was an American writer and journalist. She is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism, along with Gay Talese, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe.
Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.