Lynn Barber

Joan Didion deserves better 

The great American writer is ill-served by this new biography – but luckily we still have her own writing to tell us who she truly was

Joan Didion and her husband, John Dunne, at home in Malibu in 1977. [Alamy]

  • The World According to Joan Didion

    Evelyn McDonnell

    Fourth Estate, pp. 256, £16

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