A guide to Joan Didion: Reading recommendations, tributes and more

Joan Didion, who died early Thursday at age 87, had a seismic effect on the literary world, her home state of California and, one of her core subjects, Los Angeles. In essays, memoirs, novels and screenplays she was a cool-eyed chronicler of a country and a region gripped by profound social change.

Below is a collection of remembrances, tributes, reading recommendations and more on the celebrated author.