As we are no longer.
As we will one day not be at all."
She graduated from Berkeley in 1956, where she won an essay contest that secured her a job atVogue.
Joan Didion.Janet Fries/Getty Images
During herVogueyears, Didion metTimewriter John Gregory Dunne.
They married in 1965.
Together, they became a true literary power couple, keeping homes in Manhattan and Hollywood.
Joan Didion, her husband John Gregory Dunne, and their daughter Quintana Roo.
After nearly 40 years of marriage, Dunne died of cardiac arrest on Dec. 30, 2003.
The author was also the subject of a recent Netflix documentary titledJoan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold.
What I want and what I fear."
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Additional reporting by Stephen Lee.
