Remembering Joan Didion: the journalist and author in her own words – video

Joan Didion, the eminent journalist, author and documenter of contemporary America, has died from Parkinson's at the age of 87. Known for her pioneering blend of the personal and the political in her journalism and essays, Didion became a household name with her writing on US society that was collected in books including Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album

• Joan Didion, American journalist and author, dies at age 87