![]() ![]() But Vogue also gave her an opportunity to see her byline in print with 1961’s essay “Self-Respect-Its Source, Its Power,” which she composed at the last minute to fill some empty pages in the publication. The archive even begins at the beginning: with the footprint of a newly born Didion stamped on a 1934 hospital record.ĭidion began her professional career as a copywriter for Vogue magazine, a job she grew to dislike (“I can hardly wait to quit,” she wrote in one letter). Letters exchanged with everyone from John Wayne to Jacqueline Onassis are preserved. Collectively, they help assemble a portrait of Didion’s long career as a philosopher and student of human nature.ĭrafts and supplemental notes for essays in The White Album and Slouching Towards Bethlehem are included, as are the numerous drafts Didion and Dunne wrote for films like 1976’s A Star Is Born and 1996’s Up Close and Personal. In January, the NYPL disclosed it had obtained the late author’s archive of personal correspondence, photos, research materials, and assorted records, as well as those of her husband, John Gregory Dunne. In telling her stories, the novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and socialite accumulated a vast repository of materials that are now in the possession of the New York Public Library. ![]() “We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” wrote Joan Didion. ![]()
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