Joan Didion has died at the age of 87, her publisher has confirmed.
The legendary essayist, novelist and screenwriter — who had long been revered as one of America’s pre-eminent writers — passed away at her Manhattan home Thursday morning.
“We are deeply saddened to report that Joan Didion died earlier this morning at her home in New York due to complications from Parkinson’s disease,” Penguin Random House/Knopf said in a statement.
She was preceded in death by her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and their daughter, Quintana Roo Dunne.
Didion was best known for chronicling the 1960s counterculture in her groundbreaking book of essays, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem.” She also won the 2005 National Book Award for Nonfiction for her best-selling memoir, “The Year of Magical Thinking.”
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