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Joan Didion’s Eternal Cool
LEGEND
The first biography of Joan Didion falls far short of a definitive portrait of one of America’s greatest living writers—which is just the way the enigmatic Didion would want it.
Lizzie Crocker
Published
Aug. 23 2015
12:05AM EDT
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