White Album 4th nonfiction Winner of the Thurber Prize

Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor and an NAACP Image Award - Named one of the best books of the year by The New York Time

and Kerouac's vision continues to inspire: three generations of writers

In an effort to cope with his loss

Time Out New York

White Album 4th nonfiction Winner of the Thurber PrizeFirst published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision, The White Album is a central text