Thursday, October 02, 2014

Joan Didion Answers the Proust Questionnaire



Portrait of Joan Didion by Robert Risko for Vanity Fair
Didion’s answers are particularly poignant for their timing — she answered The Proust Questionnaire in October of 2003, several weeks before her husband died of a heart attack while her only daughter lay comatose in the ICU; though Didion’s daughter did recover from the coma, acute pancreatitis took her life eighteen months later.
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