December 5, 1934 - December 23, 2021
American writer, novelist, playwright and screenwriter
Author of "Slouching Towards Bethlehem", the screenplay for "A Star is Born" and "The Year of Magical Thinking" (for which she was awarded a National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2005)
Author of "Slouching Towards Bethlehem", the screenplay for "A Star is Born" and "The Year of Magical Thinking" (for which she was awarded a National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2005)
Was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1991
Awarded the National Book Foundation's annual Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2007