Literary icon Joan Didion has died after a battle with Parkinson’s disease. She was 87 years old. The best-selling novelist, journalist and essayist came to prominence with a collection of articles about culture and life in 1960s California. Many of Didion’s works have received several honors and are considered to be modern classics. Didion is best known for books including “Salvador,” “Play It as It Lays,” “The White Album” and “The Year of Magical Thinking,” for which she won the Pulitzer Prize.