NEW YORK, Nov. 16 -- Joan Didion won the National Book Award for nonfiction Wednesday night for "The Year of Magical Thinking." Didion's book is an intensely felt re-creation of the disorienting mental and emotional turmoil she underwent after her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, died suddenly... -
Magical Night: Joan Didion Wins National Book Award
NEW YORK, Nov. 16 -- Joan Didion won the National Book Award for nonfiction Wednesday night for "The Year of Magical Thinking." Didion's book is an intensely felt re-creation of the disorienting mental and emotional turmoil she underwent after her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, died suddenly...-
By Bob Thompson