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Joan Didion | "On Going Home"

Joan Didion was born in Sacramento, California, and graduated with a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of five novels and seven works of nonfiction. Her collections of essays, Slouching Toward Bethlehem (1968) and The White Album (1979), made her famous as an observer of American politics and culture. Her most recent book, Where I Was From (2003), contains both new and collected essays, all of them reflecting on her state of birth, California. She currently lives in New York and is a contributor to the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker.

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