In her writing, author Joan Didion talks about how Robert Lowell and W.H. Auden have influenced her writing.
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, Victory by Joseph Conrad and Guerrillas by V.S. Naipaul are also on her list, along with Wonderland by Joyce Carol Oates, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford.
Brainpickings recently scored a handwritten list of the author’s favorite books from documentary filmmakers Susanne Rostock and Griffin Dunne, Didion’s nephew, who are working on a documentary about her life. Follow this link to check it out.