Her advice on notebooks: ‘It is a good idea, then, to keep in touch, and I suppose that keeping in touch is what notebooks are all about. And we are all on our own when it comes to keeping those lines open to ourselves: your notebook will never help me, nor mine you.’
A list of her published works:
Fiction:
- Run, River (1963)
- Play It as It Lays (1970)
- A Book of Common Prayer (1977)
- Democracy (1984)
- The Last Thing He Wanted (1996)
Nonfiction
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968)
- The White Album (1979)
- Salvador (1983)
- Miami (1987)
- After Henry (1992)
- Political Fictions (2001)
- Where I Was From (2003)
- Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11 (2003; preface by Frank Rich)
- Vintage Didion (2004; selected excerpts of previous works)
- The Year of Magical Thinking (2005)
- We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (2006)
- Blue Nights (2011)
- South and West: From a Notebook (2017)
- Let Me Tell You What I Mean (2021)
Screenplays + plays
- The Panic in Needle Park (1971) (with John Gregory Dunne and based on the novel by James Mills)
- Play It as It Lays (1972) (with John Gregory Dunne and based on her novel)
- A Star Is Born (1976) (with John Gregory Dunne)
- True Confessions (1981) (with John Gregory Dunne and based on his novel)
- Up Close & Personal (1996) (with John Gregory Dunne)
- As it Happens (2012) (with Todd Field)
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