Joan Didion – writing made sense out of a scary world

Joan Didion, the literary icon who chronicled the fragmentation of 60s and 70s American culture in her reporting and was a successful screenwriter and novelist as well has died. The 1976 film A Star Is Born was one of her credits and she won the Pulitzer Prize for The Year of Magical Thinking about her own grief following the death of her husband.Critics said of her:“In her view she lives in a world of people moved by strange, conflicted, poorly comprehended, and, above all, devious motiva