# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joan-didion
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:05:28.815Z

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name: "Joan Didion"
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description: "Joan Didion was an American writer and journalist. She is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism, along with Gay Talese, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump