South and west

Description:

Two excerpts from never-before-seen notebooks offer insights into the author's literary mind and process and includes notes on her Sacramento upbringing, her life in the Gulf states, her views on prominent locals and her experiences during a formative "Rolling Stone" assignment.

subjects: Notebooks, sketchbooks,  American Women authors,  nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2017-03-26,  New York Times bestseller,  New York Times reviewed,  United states, social life and customs,  California, social life and customs,  Biography as a literary form,  West (u.s.), description and travel,  Southern states, description and travel,  Southern states, social life and customs,  Authors, biography,  Social life and customs,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs,  LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays,  Travel,  Trials, litigation,  Nineteen seventies,  Manners and customs

People: Joan Didion,  Joan Didion (1934-2021)

Places: États-Unis (sud)

Times: 20th century