She wrote the 1970 novel "Play it as it Lays" & the 2005 memoir "The Year of Magical Thinking"
Her last book, The Year of Magical Thinking (2005), recounted the 
grave... [DOC] [TLE] Music, Memory, and Prose: On Joan Didion's Memoirs [PAR] Close behind Where I Was From came The Year of Magical Thinking in 2005.