The Celebrities We Lost in 2021

Joan Didion - 87

Joan Didion passed away in late December 2021 from Parkinson's disease at 87. She was a journalist and an author, coming onto the scene writing features for Life magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, and Vogue. She was a prominent figure in the litrary world, writing 12 nonfiction works, five novels, six co-written screenplays, and one Broadway play.

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