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Joan Didion
"An elegant prose stylist . . . Joan Didion  possesses
a distinct literary voice, widely praised for its precision and
control." Born in Sacramento to a fifth generation Central Valley
family, she received a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley in 1956. Among the many
awards and nominations she has received are first prize in Vogue's Prix de
Paris, 1956, National Book Award nomination in fiction, 1971, American
Book Award nomination in non fiction, 1981. Although she has published
several novels, she has received the greatest public attention for
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 1968, a collection of essays. More recently
she has been collaborating with her husband, John Gregory Dunn, on screen
plays.It was Didion's mother who gave her a notebook and suggested she start writing. She wrote her first story at age 5. "In her quest for controlled perfection, Didion revises her writing repeatedly, working and reworking the exact placement of important details." From: Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series
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Requiem
Por Una Burguesa (1978)
not
that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic
necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we
have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when
the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we
are in bad trouble.