Primary Works

Slouching towards Bethlehem. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968. PS3554 I33 S55

Play it as it lays, a novel. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970. PS3554.I33 P55

A book of common prayer. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1977. PS3554 I33 B6

Telling stories. Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library, U of California, 1978. PS3554.I33 T4x

Run River. NY: Pocket Books, 1978, 1963. PS3554.I33 R5

The white album. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1979. PS3554 .I33 W4

Salvador. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1983. F1488.3 .D53

Democracy: a novel. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1984. PS3554 .I33 D4

Miami. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1987. F319 .M6 D49

After Henry. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1992. PS3554 .I33 A68

The last thing he wanted. NY: Knopf; Distributed by Random House, 1996. PS3554 .I33 L37

Political fictions. NY: Knopf, 2001. E839.5 .D52

Where I Was From. NY: Knopf, 2003.

The Year of Magical Thinking. NY: Knopf, 2005

Selected Bibliography 1980-Present

Als, Hilton. "Joan Didion." in Gourevitch, Philip. intro. The Paris Review Interviews, I. NY: Picador, 2006.

Eggers, Dave. "Dave Eggers Talks with Joan Didion." in Vida, Vendela. ed. The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers. San Francisco: Believer, 2005.

Felton, Sharon. "Joan Didion: A Writer of Scope and Substance." in Dillard, R. H. W. and Cockrell, Amanda. eds. Twayne Companion to Contemporary Literature in English, I: Ammons-Lurie; II: Macleod-Williams. NY: Twayne, 2002.

Hanley, Lynne. Writing War: Fiction, Gender, and Memory. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1991.

Henderson, Katherine U. Joan Didion. NY: Ungar, 1981. PS3554.I33 Z68

Lounsberry, Barbara. The Art of Fact: Contemporary Artists of Nonfiction. NY: Greenwood, 1990.

Rhodes, Chip. Politics, Desire, and the Hollywood Novel. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2008.

Stout, Janis P. Strategies of reticence: silence and meaning in the works of Jane Austen, Willa Cather, Katherine Anne Porter, and Joan Didion. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1990. PS374 .S54 S76

- - -. Through the Window, Out the Door: Women's Narratives of Departure, from Austin and Cather to Tyler, Morrison, and Didion. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1998.

Winchell, Mark R. Joan Didion. Boston: Twayne, 1989. PS3554 .I33 Z95

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