| Salvador | |
| Author: | Joan Didion |
| Cover Artist: | Lawrence Ratzkin |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Essays |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster (US) Chatto & Windus (UK) Lester & Orpen Dennys (Canada) |
| Release Date: | 1983 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages: | 108 pp |
| Isbn: | 0-671-47024-8 |
| Isbn Note: | (UK/US) (Canada) |
| Dewey: | 972.8405/2 20 |
| Congress: | F1488.3 .D53 1994 |
| Oclc: | 29389494 |
Salvador is a 1983 nonfiction book by Joan Didion on American involvement in the Salvadoran Civil War.[1] Most of the book is based on three extended essays Didion published in The New York Review of Books in November and December 1982.[2] [3] She spent two weeks in El Salvador in June 1982 and referred to the experience as "terrifying."[4] Didion was in the country during the 1982 earthquake.[5]