Death Cause & Obituary: How Didjoan Didion Die – the Writer Is No More!
According to her obituary by The Guardian, Joan Didion’s cause of death was from Parkinson’s disease.
Joan was born on December 5, 1934, in Sacramento, California, and was fond of reading and writing from an early age. According to her Wikipedia, the writer’s earliest memory of writing was when she was just 5 years old.
Moving on, Didion received a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1956, and as a senior, won the Prix de Paris, an essay contest sponsored by Vogue Magazine. With that achievement, she landed a research assistant job at the magazine.
It was where, Didin met her future husband and a distinguished American writer, John Gregory Dunne. The writer’s duo married in 1964, and in 1966, adopted a baby as their daughter, Quintana Roo Dunne.
Her husband, John, died of a massive heart attack, and two years later, she lost her beloved daughter, Quintana, who died of acute pancreatitis.
