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Mar 16, 2024 Aldo PuseyLiterary legend Joan Didion - a stylish life in pictures | FashionLiterary legend Joan Didion - a stylish life in picturesShare on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Didion, who has died aged 87, emerged as part of the ‘New Journalism’ generation of writers in the 1960s and won acclaim for her essays, plays and novels. Her personal style also made her an influential figure in the world of fashionSarah GilbertMain image: Joan Didion in the 1970s Photograph: Everett/Mary Lloyd EstrinThu 23 Dec 2021 18.59 GMT Last modified on Fri 24 Dec 2021 10.04 GMTJoan Didion in what would become her signature look of huge sunglasses, pencil skirts and flats, visits Alcatraz prison in 1967, which featured in her essay Rock of Ages.Photograph: Ted Streshinsky Photographic Archive/Corbis/Getty ImagesShare on Facebook Share on Twitter Didion stands in San Francisco’s Golden Gate park in April 1967. Her experiences of California in the 1960s inspired her essays Slouching Towards Bethlehem.Photograph: Ted Streshinsky Photographic Archive/Corbis/Getty ImagesShare on Facebook Share on Twitter Joan Didion at home in Malibu in 1972.Photograph: Henry Clarke/Conde Nast/Getty ImagesShare on Facebook Share on Twitter Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, relocated to Los Angeles and adopted a daughter, Quintana Roo Dunne, in 1966.Photograph: Henry Clarke/Conde Nast/Getty ImagesShare on Facebook Share on Twitter Didion’s elegant style and interest in fashion, fostered at Vogue, saw her revered as a a symbol of “cool”.Photograph: Mary Lloyd EstrinShare on Facebook Share on Twitter In 2003, Didion began writing The Year of Magical Thinking, which was an exploration of her grief after her husband’s death.Photograph: Neville Elder/Corbis/Getty ImagesShare on Facebook Share on Twitter Didion became famous for her detached, sometimes elegiac, tone.Photograph: Kathy Willens/APShare on Facebook Share on Twitter Didion’s book, The Year of Magical Thinking, documented her strange habits that resulted from her grief over her husband’s death.Photograph: Liz O Baylen/Los Angeles Times/Getty ImagesShare on Facebook Share on Twitter More than one journalist, when interviewing her, would come to note Joan Didion’s quietness and frail frame with surprise.Photograph: Patrick McMullan/Getty ImagesShare on Facebook Share on Twitter “Didion was one of the country’s most trenchant writers and astute observers,” Penguin Random House and its imprint Knopf said in a statement.Photograph: Dorothy Hong/The GuardianShare on Facebook Share on Twitter At the age of 80, Didion became the face of French fashion house Céline.Photograph: Jeurgen Teller/Courtesy of CelineShare on Facebook Share on Twitter TopicsFashionJoan DidionncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEoKyaqpSerq96wqikaJ6RqLWqu81onpqknJq%2FunuRaWlqZ5SasHB%2BkmijoqyVp66zxYylnKCdnpl6q7vAp2SdoZSevK95wGaqrbGcnsCpecuinZ5lmaN6sbXCrayrnaM%3D← Meek Mill Dropped $500k for His New Chain The 'Friends' Characters Dated 85 Different People During the Show's 10-Year Run→