Wenner, Jann
Wesselmann, Tom
Westbrook, Colston
West, Louis Jolyon “Jolly”
Westmoreland, William C.
West, Nathaniel
Weyand, Fred C.
Whalen, Philip
Wharton, Edith
What a Way to Go
“When Did Music Come This Way?” (Didion)
Where I Was From (Didion)
Run River reconsidered in
theme of
titling of
voice/framing of
“White Christmas”
White, Edward
White, George Hunter
The White Album (Didion)
“The Getty” in
“In Bed” in
“In Bogotá” in
“In Hollywood” in
“On the Morning After the Sixties” in
“Quiet Days in Malibu” in
reception of
thematic elements of
voice of
“The White Album” essay in
“Women’s Movement” in
The White Album (LP)
The Whole Earth Catalog
Why Buildings Fall Down (Levy/Salvadori)
“Why I Write” (Didion)
Wilde, Oscar
Wilder, Billy
William Morris Agency
Williams, William Carlos
Willoughby, Bob
Wills, Garry
Wilson, Dennis
Wilson, Sloan
Wind Bell
Winfrey, Oprah
Winn, Kitty
Wolfe, Tom
New Journalism and
Wolfe, William
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
“Women’s Movement” (Didion). See also gender bias
Women’s Wear Daily
Wood, Natalie
Woods, James
Woodstock Festival
Woodstock Times
Woodward, Bob
Woolf, Virginia
essays/short stories/lectures
“Berkeley’s Giant: The University of California”
“Coming Home”
“Fixed Ideas”
“Sunset”
“The Welfare Island Ferry”
“When Did Music Come This Way?”
“Why I Write”
fiction
A Book of Common Prayer
Democracy
The Last Thing He Wanted
Play It As It Lays
Run River
nonfiction
After Henry
Blue Nights
Miami
Political Fictions
Salvador
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Where I Was From
The White Album
The Year of Magical Thinking
plays
The Year of Magical Thinking
screenplays
“Hills Like White Elephants”
The Panic in Needle Park
Play It As It Lays
A Star Is Born
Such Good Friends
True Confessions
Up Close & Personal
The World According to Garp (Irving)
World War II
WPA
Wright Act
Writers Guild
writers’ strike of 1988
writing style, Didion. See also specific Didion works
criticism of
cultural/aesthetic observations playing role in
literary criticism and
narrative drifts/fractures and
as New Journalism
note-taking and
point of view and
rhythm dictating storytelling and
syntax choices in
Wurster, William Wilson
Yale University
Yardley, Jonathan
The Year of Magical Thinking (Didion)
reception of
syntax and
themes of
reception of
Yeats, William Butler
Ynez Camacho, Maria
You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again (Phillips)
Young, Al
Young, Jean Allison
Zanuck, Darryl F.
Zanuck, Richard D.
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind (Suzuki)
Ziffren, Paul
Zion, Sidney
Zukor, Adolph
Zuma Canyon Orchids
About the Author
TRACY DAUGHERTY is the author of four novels, four short story collections, a book of personal essays, and two earlier literary biographies. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, and The Georgia Review, among others. Hiding Man, his biography of Donald Barthelme, was a New York Times and New Yorker Notable Book of the Year. Just One Catch, a biography of Joseph Heller, was excerpted in Vanity Fair. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Southern Methodist University and his Ph.D. from the University of Houston. Visit his Web site at: www.tracydaugherty.com or sign up for email updates here.
Also by Tracy Daugherty
Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller
Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Epigraphs
Preface: Narrative Limits
Part One
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Part Two
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Part Three
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Part Four
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Part Five
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Part Six
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Part Seven
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Part Eight
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Part Nine
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Epilogue: Life Limits
Photographs
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Also by Tracy Daugherty
Copyright
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Daugherty, Tracy.
The last love song : a biography of Joan Didion / Tracy Daugherty. — First edition.
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First Edition: August 2015