Posted on December 5, 2014 at 12:00 AM by Jeffrey Bruner
December 5
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American author and writer Joan Didion was born on this day in 1934. Didion started as a copywriter for Vogue magazine and was still working there when she published her first novel, "Run, River," in 1963. She worked with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, on a number of projects including the screenplay "Up Close & Personal," an adaptation of the biography of newswoman Jessica Savitch. After her husband died and her daughter became seriously ill, Didion wrote the memoir "The Year of Magical Thinking," which won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 2005.
SPOKEN WORDS
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ― C.S. Lewis.
DAILY DEALS
- "Hot Property" (Sherryl Woods, mystery). 99 cents. Kindle.
NEWS
- Microsoft and Barnes & Noble are ending their partnership.
- Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Claudia Emerson has died at the age of 57.
- More on the feud between Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal.
- An unpublished Ayn Rand novel will be out in 2015. She wrote it a quarter-century before "Atlas Shrugged," so there's hope it might actually be readable.
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