Quick Facts of Joan Didion

  • Full NameJoan Didion
  • Net Worth$3million
  • Date of Birth05 December, 1934
  • NicknameJoan
  • Marital Status married
  • BirthplaceSacramento, California, USA
  • Ethnicity White
  • ProfessionJournalist, Novelist, Screenwriter, Essayist, Memoirist
  • Nationality American
  • Active Year1963-present
  • Eye colour Brown
  • Hair colour Blonde
  • SpouseJohn Gregory Dunne (m. 1964; d. 2003)
  • Height4 ft 11 in / 148 cm
  • Weight99 lb / 45 kg
  • EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley
  • Online PresenceFacebook. Instagram, Twitter
  • ChildrenQuintana Roo Dunne
  • Horoscope Sagittarius
Joan Didion

Highly recognized for her lucid prose style and incisive depictions of social unrest, Joan Didion is an elegant writer. She moved to Los Angeles with an aim to be one of the most famous writers of her generation.

Joan is popular as a graceful essayist who also written a number of screenplays. She is also known for her literary journalism and memoirs. Scroll down to know all the detail information about Joan’s net worth, books, quotes, bio and much more. So, stay tuned to us until the end.

Joan Didion’s Net Worth

The American journalist and writer of novels, Joan earns a good sum of money from her multi-professional career. Likewise, she has starred in popular movies and television series and gets a good amount of salary.

As per various sites, Joan’s net worth is estimated to be $3 million. In the same way, her net worth is solely aided by her writing career.

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Going through her Instagram profile, Didion seems to be living a very luxurious life along with her family. Similarly, she has even shared a lot of pictures traveling to different places.

Joan Didion’s Books

The 83-year-old Joan has written many books to the date. She wrote her first novel- ‘Run, River’ in 1963. In 1968, she published her 1st work of nonfiction- Slouching Towards Bethlehem.

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It is said that Joan’s novels and essays explore the disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos. Her other famous novels include Play It as It Lays in 1970, A Book of Common Prayer in 1977, Democracy in 1984, and The Last Thing He Wanted in 1996. As an essayist, her collection includes Salvador in 1983, After Henry in 1992, The White Album, Joan Didion: Only Disconnect and much more.

Joan Didion’s Quotes

Among many of Joan’s powerful, motivative and influencing quotes, we tried to collect the top five of them. Here’s is it:

Self-respect is a question of recognization that anything worth having has a price.
Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.
You have to pick the places you don’t walk away from.
You aren’t sure if you’re making the right decision about anything, ever.
To believe in ‘the greater good’ is to operate necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.

Joan Didion’s Early life and Education

Joan Didion was born on December 5, 1934, in Sacramento, California. Her father is Frank Reese and mother is Eduene Didion. She holds American nationality and belongs to white ethnicity. During her young age, she could not attend school on a regular basis because her father was in the Army Air Corps during World War II.

Joan completed her high school graduation from the University of California with a bachelors degree of Arts in English. As soon as she completed graduation she pursued her career in the field of writing. She worked for 7 years at Vogue. She made her way up from promotional copywriter to associate feature editor.

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