Within a very short span, Joan Didion experienced the serious illness of her daughter, Quintana, and the death of her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne. Didion, 72, wrapped her arms around all that pain and wrote an acclaimed memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking, winning a 2005 National Book Award. Now, with the help of Hollywood super-producer Scott Rudin, she's turned her moving story into a Broadway show starring Vanessa Redgrave. What's it like seeing her words play out onstage? "A line will hit me and just break through," she says.
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