Joan Didion’s ‘astonishingly intimate’ diary to be published

‘I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking’ … Joan Didion in 1977. Photograph: Mary Lloyd Estrin/AP

A journal found in Joan Didion’s home is to be published in April.

Discovered in a filing cabinet next to the American writer’s desk after her death in 2021, Notes to John is addressed to Didion’s husband, John Gregory Dunne, who died in 2003. Its entries begin in December 1999, and recount sessions Didion was having with a psychiatrist at the time.