Joan Didion's grief

 Writer Joan Didion lived an extraordinary life.She died in December 2021 at the age of 87 from complications of Parkinson's disease;writers and readeers lamented the loss of a literary giant upon her passing.

            She was born and raised in Sacramento,California.

                   John Gregory Dunne,a gifted writer was her partner in life and literature.They were married for nearly 40 years,until Dunne died of a heart attack in their Manhattan home in 2003.

                    Didion wrote movingly about the stages of her grief following Dunne's death in her award-winning  2005 book,THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING.Their daughter,Quintana died from acute pancreatitis at the age of 39 before the book was published.Didion subequently wrote about Quintana in her 2011 memoir BLUE NIGHTS.