Joan Didion, the great chronicler of the hippie movement and one of the precursors of the New Journalism, has died at the age of 87, according to
The New York Times
, citing an email sent by Paul Bogaards, executive of the Knopf publishing house, where he published Didion.
Author of a dozen works of hundreds of articles, her book
The Year of Magical Thought
was her presentation to readers in Spanish.