Notes to John

Praise for Notes to John:

‘Full of direct quotations and written with the immediacy of fresh recollection … Readers of her memoirs will recognize how these notes inform those final books – the striving to understand and the sense of futility that comes with it’ New Yorker

Praise for Joan Didion:

‘To read Joan Didion is to understand what writing, at its most exquisitely controlled, can do’ Vogue

‘One of the most celebrated American writers of her generation … one of our sharpest and most respected observers of American politics and culture’ Barack Obama

‘A chronicler of our world’ TIME

‘A precise, human and meticulously truthful writer’ Zadie Smith

‘Our quintessential essayist’ LA Times

‘A voice like no other’ New York Times Book Review

‘This is the miracle of Joan Didion, that she attests to the disorder and dismay of life with absolute elegance and clarity, a vision of bedlam carved out of pearl’ Olivia Laing, Sunday Times

Joan Didion is one of America’s most respected writers, her work constituting some of the greatest portraits of modern-day American culture. Over the four decades of her career, she has produced widely-acclaimed journalistic essays, personal essays, novels, non-fiction, memoir and screenplays. Her memoir The Year of Magical Thinking won the National Book Award in 2005.