A novel by this author begins with the question "What makes Iago evil?" and is about a woman whose father taught her that if you overturn a rock, there's likely to be a rattlesnake underneath. The protagonist of that novel by this author compulsively drives on the freeway, going nowhere in particular. She wrote a novel about the actress Maria ("Mar-eye-uh") Wyeth. This author's husband John (*) Gregory Dunne died while her daughter Quintana Roo lay unconscious in a hospital. One of her essays begins with the line "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." For 10 points, name this author of 
A novel by this author begins with the question "What makes Iago evil?" and is about a woman whose father taught her that if you overturn a rock, there's likely to be a rattlesnake underneath. The protagonist of that novel by this author compulsively drives on the freeway, going nowhere in particular. She wrote a novel about the actress Maria ("Mar-eye-uh") Wyeth. This author's husband John (*) Gregory Dunne died while her daughter Quintana Roo lay unconscious in a hospital. One of her essays begins with the line "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." For 10 points, name this author of the novel Play It As It Lays and the memoir The Year of Magical Thinking, as well as essay collections like The White Album and Slouching Towards Bethlehem.
A novel by this author begins with the question "What makes Iago evil?"
Joan Didion 