Joan Didion

A signed, first printing Advanced Reader's Copy of Joan Didion's nonfiction collection, We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order To Live.

• Joan Didion (American).
• Introduction by John Leonard.
• New York: Everyman's Library, 2006. 
• Octavo.
• 1122 pages.
• Signed flat by Joan Didion on title page.
• Gold spine with black lettering.

Born December 5, 1934, Joan Didion's early life was spent traveling around with her family as her father as a finance officer in the Army Air Corps, leading Joan to be an avid reader who pushed through her social anxieties through acting and public speaking. A notable pioneer of "New Journalism", Didion's journalistic work has focused greatly on social and cultural issues of the time, from her groundbreaking Slouching Towards Bethlehem which focused on the counterculture hippie movement of the 1960's to Salvador which detailed the heavy American involvement in the 12-year- long Salvadoran Civil War. We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live is a collection of non-fiction works by Didion. From the introduction written by John Leonard to the works themselves, We Tell Ourselves Stories... has been highly praised as beautiful collection of some of Didion's most powerful works including; Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Salvador, and After Henry among others.