Most celebrated writing has been in the form of essays
1968: Slouching Towards Bethlehem,
A collection of essays from American Scholar, California Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, and The Saturday Evening Post.
"My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out."
2005: The Year of Magical Thinking, chronicles the year after her husband's death, during which their daughter, Quintana Roo Dunne, was also gravely ill and later died.
2007: Didion later adapted the memoir into a one-woman play, which premiered on Broadway and starred her friend Vanessa Redgrave.