She wrote the 1970 novel "Play it as it Lays" & the 2005 memoir "The Year of Magical Thinking"
While there, she wrote her first novel, Run, River, which 
was published in... [DOC] [TLE] About  Joan Didion [PAR] Her critically acclaimed second novel PLAY IT AS IT LAYS (1970) was about a ... 
the grief she felt at Dunne's death in THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING (2005).