| Part of Series | The Writers Studio Season 2 |
| Length | 56:13 |
| Licensor | KERA |
| Producer(s) | KERA 90.1 and The Writer's Garret |
| Formats | Interview |
| Topics | Literature |
| Produced | 2006 |
| Added to PRX | April 14, 2006 |
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A one hour interview with internationally acclaimed author Joan Didion
Hosted by Joyce King and Randy Gordon. Produced and edited by Susan Schewe. Recording by Jeff Whittington and Darrell Henke. The Technical Director was Eric Bright. Theme music by Stone Savage and engineering by Lyle Hathaway. Production assistance by Earl MacDonald and Jeff Luchsinger. The Executive Producer was Yolette Garcia. The Writer's Studio is made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Donna M. Wilhelm Family, The KERA Investment Fund, Humanities Texas, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, Paperbacks Plus, The Adolphus Hotel, Theater Three, and Gardere, Wynn, & Sewell.
English
Joan Didion claims more than three decades as one of our most celebrated authors, having received the Edward MacDowell Medal, Columbia Journalism Award, and Gold Medal for Belles Lettres from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, given once every six years. Her best known books are "Play It As It Lays", "A Book of Common Prayer", and "Salvador", and her screenplays, co-written with late husband John Gregory Dunne, include "Panic in Needle Park", "Play It As It Lays", "A Star is Born", and "Up Close and Personal". She lectures at Berkeley, Stanford, Yale, and Columbia, and regularly contributes to The New Yorker, The New York Times, and elsewhere. Her latest novel is "The Year of Magical Thinking".
