Joan Didion
American novelist and essayist; her front-page New York Times Book Review notice called The Executioner's Song 'an absolutely astonishing book,' a judgment that helped establish the book's reputation.
Joan Didion, the American novelist and essayist, reviewed The Executioner’s Song (79.14) on the front page of the New York Times Book Review, calling it “an absolutely astonishing book” — among the notices that secured the book’s standing. A fellow practitioner of the new nonfiction, Didion shared Mailer’s interest in the American West and the documentary possibilities of reportage.
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