Old Hollywood star Joan Crawford was estranged from two of her children, Christina and Christopher, at the time of her death in 1977 Julie Tremaine is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been ...

On March 5, 1960, Joan married her pharmacy school classmate, James Campbell Bay III, who survives her. They worked together to build several healthcare businesses in Clifton Forge, VA.

In the years since 2021's “Let Me Tell You What I Mean” and the author’s death later that year, to have “a new Joan Didion book” seemed like an impossibility. Not anymore. Didion's ...

The acclaimed actress and filmmaker is having a career renaissance playing dynamic mother roles in indie films, including in the new version of “The Wedding Banquet.” Credit... Supported by By ...

Two police officers are in the hospital after a 36-year-old man, who was killed by a third officer on scene, opened fire on them during a traffic stop in Fairfax County, Virginia on Wednesday.

Well, it looks as if it’s time once again for my more or less annual piece about Joan Didion. I didn’t set out to make this a yearly tradition. Way back in 2007, I wrote what I thought was a ...

The marquee matchup in Virginia’s 2025 elections has been set, and Democrats are unveiling their blueprint as they seek sweeping wins in the Old Dominion. In November, Republican Lt. Gov.

NOTES TO JOHN, by Joan Didion After Joan Didion died, a first-person record of her psychiatric sessions with Dr. Roger MacKinnon was found lurking temptingly in a box near her desk. Is their ...

Joan Didion’s persona has loomed as large as her literary canon. That photograph of her holding a cigarette just so, daring the camera to reveal what she’s thinking, says it all: You will be ...

Reading Notes to John, a new and much-discussed posthumous selection of Joan Didion’s writing, I thought over and over of this image: my grandma’s bare face, the nervous way she clasped her robe.

Joan is under fire for telling Greg’s mom to leave her house more. Pic credit: TLC Joan Kruchov is facing harsh criticism for her comments to Greg Chillak’s mom, Lucille. This season on 90 Day ...

A pair of Virginia parents were arrested after their third-grade son grabbed an unsecured handgun inside the home, put it in his backpack and went to school, where it inadvertently went off during ...