I Write to Find Out What I am Thinking

Collected Non Fiction

Joan Didion (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

472 Seiten

2025
Everyman's Library (Verlag)
978-1-84159-432-3 (ISBN)

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This hardcover omnibus edition of Didion's collected nonfiction contains her final four books: Blue Nights, South and West, Let Me Tell You What I Mean, and her bestselling and most famous work, The Year of Magical Thinking In her essay “Why I Write” (included in this volume), Joan Didion explained what lies behind her iconic nonfiction writing: "I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means.” Across her long and prolific career, readers have been blessed time and again by her brilliance as a prose stylist and a social commentator. Form her unforgettable reckonings with grief (for her husband in The Year of Magical Thinking and for her daughter in Blue Nights), to her exploration of two iconic regions of America in South and West, through the indelible pieces of reporting collected from across her career in Let Me Tell You What I Mean, the books collected here show Didion at her best: bearing witness to our history, illuminating our culture, and shedding light on the human condition.

Joan Didion (Author) JOAN DIDION (1934–2021) was born in Sacramento, California. After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, Didion moved to New York and began working for Vogue. She went on to write five novels and ten nonfiction books, as well as co-authoring screenplays with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, for ‘The Panic in Needle Park’, ‘Play It as It Lays’, and ‘A Star is Born’, among others. Her memoir The Year of Magical Thinking won the National Book Award for Nonfiction. In 2007, she was awarded the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. In 2013, she was awarded a National Medal of Arts and Humanities by President Barack Obama, and the PEN Centre USA’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.08.2025
Reihe/Serie	Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
Einführung	Griffin Dunne
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	132 x 210 mm
Gewicht	579 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
ISBN-10	1-84159-432-6 / 1841594326
ISBN-13	978-1-84159-432-3 / 9781841594323
Zustand	Neuware