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Authors: Tracy Daugherty
The Panic in Needle Park
Play It As It Lays
A Star Is Born
Such Good Friends
True Confessions
Up Close & Personal
The World According to Garp
(Irving)
World War II
WPA
Wright Act
Writers Guild
writers' strike of 1988
writing style, Didion.
See also specific Didion works
criticism of
cultural/aesthetic observations playing role in
literary criticism and
narrative drifts/fractures and
as New Journalism
note-taking and
point of view and
rhythm dictating storytelling and
syntax choices in
Wurster, William Wilson
Yale University
Yardley, Jonathan
The Year of Magical Thinking
(Didion)
reception of
syntax and
themes of
The Year of Magical Thinking
(play)
reception of
Yeats, William Butler
Ynez Camacho, Maria
You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again
(Phillips)
Young, Al
Young, Jean Allison
Zanuck, Darryl F.
Zanuck, Richard D.
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
(Suzuki)
Ziffren, Paul
Zion, Sidney
Zukor, Adolph
Zuma Canyon Orchids
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TRACY DAUGHERTY
is the author of four novels, four short story collections, a book of personal essays, and two earlier literary biographies. His work has appeared in
The New Yorker
,
The Paris Review
,
McSweeney's
, and
The Georgia Review
, among others.
Hiding Man
, his biography of Donald Barthelme, was a
New York Times
and
New Yorker
Notable Book of the Year.
Just One Catch
, a biography of Joseph Heller, was excerpted in
Vanity Fair
. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Southern Methodist University and his Ph.D. from the University of Houston. Visit his Web site at:
www.tracydaugherty.com
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Also by
Tracy Daugherty
Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller
Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme
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THE LAST LOVE SONG.
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Daugherty, Tracy.
      The last love song : a biography of Joan Didion / Tracy Daugherty. â First edition.
          pages cm
    ISBN 978-1-250-01002-5 (hardcover)
    ISBN 978-1-4668-7740-5 (e-book)
  1.  Didion, Joan.  2.  Novelists, Americanâ20th centuryâBiography.  I.  Title.
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First Edition: August 2015