她的公关人员向 CNN 证实，享誉全国的作家琼·迪迪恩 (Joan Didion) 已去世，享年 87 岁。
保罗博加兹在一份声明中说：“我们深感悲痛地报告说，琼·迪迪恩今天早上早些时候因帕金森病并发症在她位于纽约的家中去世。”
根据 Bogaards 的说法，Didion 是萨克拉门托人，从加州大学伯克利分校毕业后搬到纽约，在那里她开始为 Vogue 工作。然后，她成为一名记者和作家，出版了多卷散文、非小说类书籍、回忆录、小说和剧本。根据 Bogaards 的说法，她的回忆录“神奇思维年”在 2005 年获得了国家非小说类图书奖。
迪迪翁获得的众多奖项包括 2007 年美国国家图书基金会的美国文学杰出贡献奖章、2005 年美国艺术与文学学院的美女文学与批评金奖，以及根据一份声明，时任总统巴拉克·奥巴马 (Barack Obama) 在 2013 年。
迪迪翁与约翰·格雷戈里·邓恩 (John Gregory Dunne) 结婚，并收养了她的女儿金塔娜·罗 (Quintana Roo)。根据一份声明，邓恩和鲁的去世相隔不到两年，她在回忆录中写到了这些事件。
Joan Didion, famed American essayist and novelist, has died
Nationally acclaimed Writer Joan Didion has died at the age of 87, her publicist confirmed to CNN.
"We are deeply saddened to report that Joan Didion died earlier this morning at her home in New York due to complications from Parkinson's disease," said Paul Bogaards in a statement.
Didion, a Sacramento native, moved to New York after graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, where she began working for Vogue, according to Bogaards. She then became a journalist and writer, publishing multiple volumes of essays, non-fiction books, memoirs, novels, and screenplays. Her memoir, "The Year of Magical Thinking," won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2005, according to Bogaards.
Among the many awards Didion won were the National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2007, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Belles Letters and Criticism in 2005, and the National Medal of Arts and Humanities awarded to her by then-President Barack Obama in 2013, according to a statement.
Didion was married to John Gregory Dunne, with whom she adopted daughter, Quintana Roo. Dunne and Roo died less than two years apart, events she wrote about in her memoirs, according to a statement.
