A journal found at Joan Didion’s home will be published in April.
Discovered in a filing cabinet next to the American writer’s desk after his death in 2021, notes John was addressed to Didion’s wife John Gregory Dunne, who died in 2003. Its entries begin In December 1999, and the reporting of the session session was having a psychiatrist at that time.
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As we know from a letter he wrote to a friend at that time, his family was having “a rough several years” when Didion started writing notes to John. Psychiatrist sessions detailed in the journal include discussions about childhood, alcoholism, sadness and his daughter, Quintana. Didion spoke in sessions about his contact with Quintana, who lived with a mental illness and alcoholism, and died in 2005 with 39.
According to the UK publisher of the 4th estate, an imprint of Harpercollins, the conversation made by the psychiatrist talks “was the center of Didion’s understanding of the themes he turned to his brilliant works , where I came from, the year of mysterious thinking and blue nights.
Kishani WidaRaatna, director of publication in the 4th estate said: “It is a great honor to bring a rare new book to readers. The notes to John offer us a deep movement and surprising Picture of the person behind the respected literary persona, and rare views in Genesis of some work of dido.
Joan Didion was born in Sacramento, California, in 1934 and worked as a journalist before publishing her first novel, Run River, in 1963. She continued to write four more novels including a book of common prayer and democracy . He is also known for his essays such as Goodbye to All and The White Album, and his Memoir The Year of Magical Thinking won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2005. In 2013, he was shown at a national humanities Obama’s Barack medal and, in the same year, he won the PEN Center USA’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
“I’m writing wholeheartedly to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what that means,” Didion said about his work.
