Protection proved an abiding theme in Didion’s understanding of love. In her essay “John Wayne: A Love Story” she wrote of her lifelong adoration of the actor, who onscreen embodied the stalwart ...

The New York Public Library's Joan Didion archive opens March 26. Here's what you'll find inside. A glimpse into the newly opened archive of Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne About a year after Joan ...

Beginning March 26th, however, anyone with a New York Public Library card will be able to schedule a visit with the Didion Dunnes in the Manuscripts and Archives Division of the Schwartzman Building ...

It’s a bit awkward to give a “best of” accolade to a book when you’re not entirely sure it should exist. There were only a few months between the announcement that a folder of journal entries had been ...

On an ordinary weekday in the New York Public Library’s Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room for Rare Books and Manuscripts, a researcher, if there is one, is likely working alone. That changed when the ...

Elvis hosts screenwriter and author John Gregory Dunne, whose screenwriting credits (along with his partner and wife, Joan Didion) include A Star is Born, True Confessions, and Up Close and Personal, ...