The Joan Didion Collection

The ultimate Didion: all 17 of her major works of fiction, journalism, and memoir together for the first time in a 3-volume boxed set

"Essential." -Esquire

In 1968, a collection of reportage appeared that was unlike anything seen before, remarkable in its literary aspiration and a milestone in what would become known as the New Journalism. A series of wickedly incisive portraits of California and its people-from fading stars to homicidal housewives to drug-addled hippies-Slouching Towards Bethlehem was a sensation, signaling the arrival of a major writer. It attracted not only readers but devotees, and Joan Didion became more than just a celebrated author, she became an icon for the age. Now, for the first time, all her best-known and most enduring works are gathered together in a career-spanning 3-volume Library of America boxed set.

THE JOAN DIDION COLLECTION includes:

I. The 1960s & 70s Run River Slouching Towards Bethlehem Play It As It Lays A Book of Common Prayer The White Album

II. The 1980s & 90s Salvador Democracy Miami After Henry The Last Thing He Wanted

III. Memoirs & Later Writings Political Fictions Fixed Ideas Where I Was From The Year of Magical Thinking (memoir and play) Blue Nights South and West

Edited by David L. Ulin, each volume contains a textual essay, a chronology of Didion's life and career, and detailed notes.