Actor and filmmaker Griffin Dunne paid tribute to his aunt, acclaimed author Joan Didion, who died on Thursday at 87. Dunne said Didion, who was the subject of his haunting 2017 Netflix documentary…
“wrote about grief to find out what she felt, but ended up giving hope and meaning to those who needed it most.”
“Yesterday morning I said goodbye to my Aunt Joan for the last time,” Dunne, the son of Didion’s brother-in-law, author Dominick Dunne, said in a statement on Friday. “Yesterday morning her enormous readership also began their goodbyes to, one of the greatest writers of our time. In 1961, as a young contributor at Vogue, Joan once wrote, ‘People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called character.
Essay collections “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” and “The White Album” , and novels “Play It as It Lays” — which she adapted for a 1972 film — “A Book of Common Prayer” , “Democracy” and “The Last Thing He Wanted” — adapted into a 2020 film by Dee Rees — cemented her legacy as one of the 20th century’s most masterful writers.
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