She wrote the 1970 novel "Play it as it Lays" & the 2005 memoir "The Year of Magical Thinking"
[DOC] [TLE] Joan Didion: a Love Song | Oakland Public Library [PAR] Nov 14, 2015 ... She is perhaps best known today for The Year of Magical Thinking, a memoir of 
grief that she wrote after her husband's sudden death in 2003 and for which she 
won the National Book Award in 2005.