Gavin Newsom salutes Joan Didion, ‘the requisite voice of California’
by Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times
Dec 23, 2021
2 minutes
Writers, readers, politicians and entertainment luminaries have taken to social media to honor renowned writer Joan Didion, who died Thursday morning at age 87 in her New York home due to complications from Parkinson’s disease.
Shortly after Didion’s publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, announced her death, California Gov. Gavin Newsom released a lengthy statement eulogizing the “preeminent author, culture critic, and requisite voice of
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