TODAY rounded up seven necessary reads by the author, who was best known for meditative works on mourning and the American experience.
Didion's first collection of nonfiction writing is revered as an essential portrait of America — particularly California — in the 1960s.
It focuses on her experience growing up in the Sunshine state, icons of that time John Wayne and Howard Hughes, and the essence of Haight-Ashbury, a neighborhood in San Francisco that became the heart of the counterculture movement.A reflective collection of essays,"The White Album" explores several of the same topics Didion touched on in"Slouching Towards Bethlehem," this time focusing on the history and politics of California in the late 1960s and early '70s.
" writes with a razor, carving her characters out of her perceptions with strokes so swift and economical that each scene ends almost before the reader is aware of it, and yet the characters go on bleeding afterward,"
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