Born on this day – Joan Didion:

Joan Didion

Writer

December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021

Credits:

Run River (1963); Play It As It Lays (1970); A Book of Common Prayer (1977); Democracy (1984); The Last Thing He Wanted (1996); Vintage Didion (2004); The 1960s & 70s (2019); Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968); The White Album (1979); Salvador (1983); Miami (1987); Some Women (1990); After Henry (1992); Sentimental Journeys (1993); Perspectives on the Individual (1998); Political Fictions (2001); Fixed Ideas (2003); Where I Was From (2003); Live and Learn (2005); The Year of Magical Thinking (2005); We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live (2006); Blue Nights (2011); Insider Baseball (2016); South and West (2017); Collected Essays (2018); Let Me Tell You What I Mean (2021); Bonds of War (2022); What She Means (2022); The Writer on Her Work (1980); Women Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1989); Florida Stories (1993); Writing Women's Lives (1994); Writing New York (1998); The Eloquent Essay (2000); Writing Los Angeles (2002); The Little Big Book of California (2005); 40 Model Essays (2005); The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers (2005).

Movies and television:

A Star Is Born (1976 / 2018); Babel (2005); Broken Trust (1995); Celebrity: Dominick Dunne (2008); Charlie Rose (1996–2011); Crossing Borders: The Journey of Carlos Fuentes (1989); David Halberstam: The Coldest Winter (2007); Dominick Dunne et les crimes de la jet set (2007); Ellie Parker (2005); Everything Is Copy (2015); Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (2017); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1965); Late Review (2011); New York 360º Presents: The 2007 Matrix Awards (2007); New York in the 50's (2000); Nicole (1976); Northern Exposure (1993); Out of My Head (2018); Play It As It Lays (1972); Shotgun Freeway: Drives Through Lost L.A. (1995); Such Good Friends (1971); The 50 Year Argument (2014); The Brandon Teena Story (1998); The Falling of the Bright (2008); The Last Thing He Wanted (2020); The Panic in Needle Park (1971); The South Bank Show (2007); True Confessions (1981); Up Close & Personal (1996); West Wing Week (2013); Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990); Writers in Needle Park (2011).