“I’m only myself in front of my typewriter.” The editor, Susan Braudy, had asked Didion to describe a scene from her life so quintessential that it could open a nonfiction piece about her.Īfter demurring several times, Didion finally told Braudy about a moment during one of the many parties she and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, hosted at their Trancas beach house, when she began to feel “scattered, upset, not myself.” Instead of going for a walk along the shore or taking a break in the bathroom, she went to her office and sat at her typewriter. It was January 1977, and Didion’s third novel, “A Book of Common Prayer,” would be published in March. magazine during an interview at the author’s Malibu home. “You know, sometimes I think I can’t think at all unless I’m behind my typewriter,” Joan Didion told an editor for Ms. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores.
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