Diana Marcum

Reporter, Los Angeles Times

Diana Marcum writes about life in the small towns and rural areas of California for the Los Angeles Times. In 2015, she won the Pulitzer Prize for narrative portraits of farm workers, farmers and others in California’s drought-stricken Central Valley. Marcum is the author of The Tenth Island, Finding Joy, Beauty and Unexpected Love in the Azores.

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The Land of Dreams and Drought

August 9, 2019
The California dream, with its promise of never-ending sunshine, fertile soil and rivers running with gold, has been beckoning people west for...