![]() ![]() Nathaniel Rich, prefacing South and West, wrote that she “saw her era more clearly than anyone else, which is another way of saying that she was able to see the future”. Partly the chilled prose – ahead of its time, anticipating both the personal essay boom and the numbed affect that would become typical of Generation X. What has fixed her in the collective imagination? ![]() This April, the Library of America will release the second volume of its definitive edition of her work. South and West, published the same year, showed that even her notes would sell. She was the subject, in 2017, of a Netflix documentary, The Center Will Not Hold. In 2013, President Barack Obama awarded her the National Humanities Medal. In the five decades since Slouching Towards Bethlehem, her work, particularly her non-fiction, has been widely celebrated. Joan Didion has been consecrated in her own lifetime. ![]()
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