Diana Marcum

Marcum was born in Sonoma County, California. She attended but did not graduate from Crafton Hills College.{{Cite web |title=Diana Marcum, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, dies at 60 |url=https://nieman.harvard.edu/news/2023/08/diana-marcum-pulitzer-prize-winning-reporter-dies-at-60/ |access-date=2023-12-02 |website=Nieman Foundation |language=en-US}}

Marcum worked as an assistant at The San Bernardino Sun as a young woman, then became a reporter. She was a reporter and a columnist at The Fresno Bee,{{Cite news |last=Tehee |first=Joshua |date=2023-08-13 |title=Diana Marcum, former Fresno Bee reporter, dies at 60 |pages=A1 |work=The Fresno Bee |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-fresno-bee-diana-marcum-former-fres/136131436/ |access-date=2023-12-02 |via=Newspapers.com}} and was on the staff of the Los Angeles Times from 2011 to 2022. She often wrote about California's Central Valley and the people and communities who live there, but she also wrote two book-length travel memoirs, about the Azores and Belize.{{Cite web |last=Daniel |first=Alice |date=2021-12-21 |title=Fresno writer Diana Marcum's second travel memoir revolves around Blue Morpho Butterflies and Belize |url=https://www.kvpr.org/2021-12-21/fresno-writer-diana-marcums-second-travel-memoir-revolves-around-blue-morpho-butterflies-and-belize |access-date=2023-12-02 |website=KVPR {{!}} Valley Public Radio |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Ward |first=James |title='The Tenth Island' memoir by Pulitzer Prize-winner inspired by Tulare County Portuguese |url=https://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/entertainment/books/2018/07/19/tenth-island-pulitzer-prize-winner-inspired-tulare-county/793236002/ |access-date=2023-12-02 |website=Visalia Times-Delta |language=en-US}}

Marcum won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 2015, for "offering nuanced portraits of lives affected by the state's drought, bringing an original and empathic perspective to the story" in her Los Angeles Times series "Scenes from California's Dust Bowl".[https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/diana-marcum "Diana Marcum of Los Angeles Times"] The Pulitzer Prizes, 2015. She was awarded a Nieman Fellowship in 2018.{{Cite web |last=Accardi |first=Millicent Borges |date=2018-09-25 |title= Straight from Pico: An interview with the author of The Tenth Island |url=https://portuguese-american-journal.com/straight-from-pico-an-interview-with-the-author-of-the-tenth-island/ |access-date=2023-12-02 |website=Portuguese American Journal |language=en}} "If we only write about the bad, that’s not a complete picture.There is a lot of perseverance and faith and friendship and humor. There’s everything. It’s a big, complex world of good and bad. And the good counts", she explained about her storytelling in 2015.{{Cite web |last=Kiernan |first=Louise |date=April 30, 2015 |title=A Conversation with Pulitzer Prize Winner Diana Marcum |url=https://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/a-conversation-with-pulitzer-prize-winner-diana-marcum/ |access-date=2023-12-02 |website=Nieman Storyboard |language=en-US}}

• The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores (2018){{Cite book |last=Marcum |first=Diana |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0tUTuwEACAAJ |title=The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores |date=2018 |publisher=Amazon Publishing |isbn=978-1-5039-4131-1 |language=en}}
• The Fallen Stones: Chasing Butterflies, Discovering Mayan Secrets, and Looking for Hope Along the Way (2021){{Cite web |date=2021-06-17 |title=Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Diana Marcum |url=https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2021/06/17/los-angeles-times-staff-writer-diana-marcum-interview/personalities/in-the-green-room/ |access-date=2023-12-02 |website=Zócalo Public Square |language=en-US}}

• "On the front lines" (1994, about medical emergency personnel in the aftermath of the Northridge earthquake){{Cite news |last=Marcum |first=Diana |date=1994-01-23 |title=On the Front Lines |pages=8 |work=The Desert Sun |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-desert-sun-on-the-front-linesdiana/136131775/ |access-date=2023-12-02 |via=Newspapers.com}}
• "Bruised, not broken, by trek" (2006){{Cite news |last=Marcum |first=Diana |date=2006-09-03 |title=Bruised, not broken, by trek |pages=A1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-modesto-bee-muir-continued/136131685/ B5] |work=The Fresno Bee |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-fresno-bee-bruised-not-broken-by-t/136131627/ |access-date=2023-12-02 |via=Newspapers.com}}
• "Closure of historic temple in Fresno dismays Japanese American community" (2011){{Cite web |last=Marcum |first=Diana |date=August 1, 2011 |title=Closure of historic temple in Fresno dismays Japanese American community |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/la-xpm-2011-aug-01-la-me-temple-20110801-story.html |access-date=2023-12-02 |website=Los Angeles Times, via Internet Archive |archive-date=2020-09-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927114613/https://www.latimes.com/local/la-xpm-2011-aug-01-la-me-temple-20110801-story.html |url-status=bot: unknown }}
• "Orange food stand to be reborn" (2012){{Cite news |last=Marcum |first=Diana |date=2012-06-16 |title=Orange food stand to be reborn |pages=11 |work=The Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-orange-food-stand/136132039/ |access-date=2023-12-02 |via=Newspapers.com}}
• "Scenes from California's Dust Bowl" (2014){{Cite web |date=2014-12-10 |title=Scenes from California's Dust Bowl |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/great-reads/la-me-c1-drought-timeline-20141210-html-htmlstory.html |access-date=2023-12-02 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}
• "Let the Interlopers In" (2016){{Cite web |last=Marcum |first=Diana |date=Fall 2016 |title=Let the Interlopers In |url=https://niemanreports.org/articles/let-the-interlopers-in/ |access-date=2023-12-02 |website=Nieman Reports |language=en-US}}
• "An American Road Trip Through Troubled Times" (2021){{Cite web |last=Marcum |first=Diana |date=2021-10-01 |title=An American road trip through troubled times |url=https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-10-01/dianas-trip-to-maine |access-date=2023-12-02 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}
• "In the Ashes of the Devastating Sierra Fire, A Flower Farm Blooms" (2022){{Cite web |date=2022-08-15 |title=In the ashes of a devastating Sierra fire, a flower farm blooms |url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-08-15/in-the-ashes-of-a-devastating-sierra-fire-a-flower-farm-blooms |access-date=2023-12-02 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}
• "A Cambodian American police officer helps his community heal and look forward" (2022){{Cite web |last=Marcum |first=Diana |date=2022-07-12 |title=A Cambodian American police officer helps his community heal and look forward |url=https://news.yahoo.com/cambodian-american-police-officer-helps-120001327.html |access-date=2023-12-02 |website=Yahoo News |language=en-US}}

Marcum died in 2023, at the age of 60, in Fresno, California, after surgery to remove a brain tumor.{{Cite web |last=Matos |first=Carolina |date=2023-08-13 |title=In Memoriam: Diana Marcum was one of us |url=https://portuguese-american-journal.com/community-diana-marcum-was-one-of-us-fresno-ca/ |access-date=2023-12-02 |website=Portuguese American Journal |language=en}}

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