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Didion (Joan) Papers
BANC MSS 81/140 c
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Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Joan Didion papers
Creator:
Didion, Joan
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 81/140 c
Physical Description:
7.5 linear feet
(6 cartons)
Date (bulk): 1963-1992
Date (inclusive): 1963-2006
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language of Material: In English.
Collection is open for research. COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Joan Didion in 1981, 1988, 1990, 1996, and 1997.
Joan Didion (born December 5, 1934, Sacramento, California; died December 23, 2021, Manhattan, New York City) was an American
novelist, essayist, and memoirist. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley,
in 1956. She married writer John Gregory Dunne, with whom she often collaborated, in 1964.
Joan Didion papers, BANC MSS 81/140 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley..
John Gregory Dunne papers (BANC MSS 79/125 c).
Play it as it lays : a screenplay (BANC MSS 90/57 c)
Contains manuscripts and other papers concerning her works: River Run, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Play It As It Lays, A
Book of Common Prayer, The White Album, Salvador, Democracy, Miami, After Henry, and The Last Thing He Wanted. Also includes
essays by Didion, some originally published in the New York Review of Books. These include "The Deferential Spirit" "The Teachings
of Speaker Gingrich" and "Something Horrible." Also contains a small amount of correspondence and transcribed notes from a
speech.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Didion, Joan
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Authors, American.
Women authors.
Manuscripts for publication