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"I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just did. It was an amazing thing, because planes hadn't been flying very many days, and I got on this plane and went to San Francisco, and the minute that plane lifted above the clouds, I felt this incredible sense of lightness."

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About Joan Didion

Joan Didion was an American writer and journalist known for literary nonfiction and essays on American culture and politics. Her major works include Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The Year of Magical Thinking.

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