Today in California History: On December 5th, 1934, Joan Didion was born in Sacramento ✍️📚 From “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” to “The Year of Magical Thinking,” Didion’s clear, spare prose captured California’s contradictions and cemented her place as one of America’s most important literary voices. For your daily dose of California history, follow me, your history homie Foo Howser. #FooHowser #YourHistoryHomie #CaliforniaHistory #TodayInHistory #JoanDidion #Sacramento #CaliforniaAuthors #Liter

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion. This Folio edition is the author’s seminal essay collection in which Joan Didon narrates the political and social climate of the 1960s in America. Explore the 20 crackingly sharp essays in this book via the link in the bio. | The Folio Society