The pioneering prose of a New Journalist

Joan Didion was so much more than the sum of these parts, as this latest biography by Evelyn McDonnell, demonstrates

The World According to Joan Didion 

Author: Evelyn McDonnell

Publisher: Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins

Pages: 243

Price: Rs 599

Joan Didion, who died on December 23, 2021, is the pioneering figure of “New Journalism” era in America. But she was also a fashion icon, who often wore big sunglasses on her petite frame, and who once posed for the photographer Julian Wasser rather expressionlessly standing before a Corvette Stingray, holding a cigarette in her right hand, looking remarkably angelic.

But Didion was so much more than the sum of these parts, as this latest biography by Evelyn McDonnell, demonstrates.