It may be an empty apartment, but its stories could easily fill the pages of a book.
The Upper East Side home of the late author Joan Didion — who died in December 2021 at age 87 — has been listed for $7.5 millionAccording to Property Snoops on the curb,
Didion, whose extensive body of work included her grief”blue nights“Memoirs – a title released in 2011 that describes the death of his 39-year-old daughter, Quintana Roo Dunn, in 2005 – To die Inside this four-bedroom co-op due to complications from Parkinson’s disease. In addition to her daughter, Didion was predeceased by her husband, the writer John Gregory Dunn, who died at the unit in December 2003 at the age of 71 from a heart attack – a tragedy that coincided with her 2005 death. opens the memoryyear of magical thinking,
The listing of this unit comes on the heels of Didion’s estate auction last year, in which one buyer snapped up one of her dictionaries for $11,000 — and another bought her Céline sunglasses for $27,000. (Sales, according to Curb, grossed more than $2 million.)
This home at 30 E. 71 St. showcases beautiful herringbone floors, bookshelves and moldings painted pale blue, a step-down library next to the living room — along with chef’s grade appliances A kitchen, as Didion was known to cook often. Elsewhere, there are beamed ceilings, wide hallways and oversize windows. There are also 4.5 bathrooms in the unit.
The listing, submitted by Serena Boardman of Sotheby’s International Realty, additionally details a woodburning fireplace, a wet bar and a master bedroom with windows overlooking the city.
Didion and Dunn, Curbed notes, purchased the home in 1988. Didion herself served on the co-op board and it is the place the couple called their primary residence.