Heaven on Earth: Dispatches From America’s Spiritual Frontier.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1992. First edition of the journalist's objective exploration of "New Age" spirituality. Octavo, original half cloth. From the library of Joan Didion with the original typed transmittal letter signed by the Senior Editor of Crown Publishers to Joan Didion laid in. The recipient, American journalist and novelist Joan Didion gained a reputation in the 1960s and 70s as a pioneer of the New Journalism style of news writing. Her articles and political writing engaged audiences in the realities of the counterculture of the 1960s, the Hollywood lifestyle, California culture, and California history. She also gained recognition for her sensational novels, including her first nonfiction book, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, a collection of magazine pieces about her experiences in California. In 2005, Didion won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for The Year of Magical Thinking, a memoir of the year following the death of her husband. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ken Sansone. "Michael D'Antonio has made the religious beat a labor of love and a work of art. Now he has taken a fascinating journey through the rituals, ceremonies, communities, and beliefs of New Age America. He is the perfect guide - both seeker and challenger, both explorer and skeptic. Heaven on Earth is journalism touched with humanity (Bill Moyers).