Joan Didion Was Not a Feminist

The left loves to revise history—so does the right—and no author in recent times has been “revised” more than poor old dead Joan Didion, one of my all-time favorite literary writers of the 20^th century. (RIP.)

Enter the new pseudo biography: Evelyn McDonnell’s The World According to Joan Didion. It has that classic 1960s photo on the cover of Didion in her Corvette Stingray, the photo in black and white, unsmiling (as was her style), two fingers clutching her delicate wrist, a long sleeve blouse on, long hair, dark eyes, eyeing the camera cryptically, sitting in the driver’s seat.