Joan Didion’s Letters
THE ARCHIVE
Letters to and from Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne
There was a time when people wrote letters. Here are a few from Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, plus notes they received from Judy Blume, Tennessee Williams, and Tom Wolfe.
Credit: the archives of Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne/New York Public Library
Letter and clipping from Joan Didion to her family during her early years at Vogue, 1957. “The world is so full of a number of things. Saturday night I’m going to see “Brigadoon” at the City Center. Nothing much more to say. Wish I were home.”
1964 "small note with big news" from John Gregory Dunne to Jason McManus at Time Magazine. "I'm getting married. The date: January 30; the girl: Joan Didion; the place: Carmel, Cal.”
A letter Joan Didion sent to her family in April 1957, when she was working at Vogue. It included a magazine clipping showing her new dress, which she called “a smashing success.”
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Judy Blume’s letter to Joan Didion.
A letter from Tom Wolfe to Didion and Dunne, thanking them for a dinner invitation. “Dinner (that chicken dish!) was spectacular — and so is your home,” he wrote.
A 1973 letter to Didion from Tennessee Williams, with a dried-flower collage he inscribed to her.
