Much of her writing resembles the style of seasoned reporters, appearing like evidence from eyewitness accounts. Trained as a reporter, Didion began her journalism career working at Vogue for two years. She especially reflects on life in California, showing how its particular history and environment shapes and morphs the psyches of its inhabitants. Published in 1968, Joan Didion’s first nonfiction book, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, recounts and muses upon various vignettes of social, political, and existential occurrences in American lives during the 1960s.
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