Writer Joan Didion, whose ‘electric anxiety’ inspired a generation, has died at 87

Author Joan Didion poses for a portrait in her New York apartment on Sept. 26, 2005.

When Didion started writing in the 1960s, she put a certain kind of voice on the page — neurotic, female — that hadn’t been there before.

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When Didion started writing in the 1960s, she put a certain kind of voice on the page — neurotic, female — that hadn’t been there before.