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Sacramento City College renames library to honor renowned author Joan Didion
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Sacramento City College honored the late author Joan Didion by renaming its learning center after her. Didion, who was born in Sacramento in 1934, was a student at the college in the 1950s. “She was a student here for only a brief time, but it was a critical time in her life when she was trying to figure out ‘what will I be,'” said Kelley Didion, the author’s niece. Didion received numerous awards including the National Book Award for her memoir, “The Year of Magical Thinking.”In 2012, former President Barack Obama awarded Didion with the National Humanities Medal. “Her legacy is to realize that you can grow, you can take the place that you’re from, that you love with you, and you can go out into the world and make a difference,” Kelley Didion said. With the hopes of continuing her legacy, Didion’s family and the Sacramento Historical Society donated $500,000 to the college. Sacramento City College President Albert Garcia said the donation from the family helped fund a scholarship for student writers and faculty. “One faculty member each year has an opportunity to do research, historical research or other kinds of research about the area, sort of honoring Joan Didion,” Garcia said. Didion died in December 2021 at the age of 87.The Joan Didion Learning Resource Center will also be a place where aspiring writers can connect with her work. “They’ll access her work for the first time, and that that’s our hope that it will just become accessible to generations of students to follow,” Kelley Didion said. See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter
Sacramento City College honored the late author Joan Didion by renaming its learning center after her.
Didion, who was born in Sacramento in 1934, was a student at the college in the 1950s.
“She was a student here for only a brief time, but it was a critical time in her life when she was trying to figure out ‘what will I be,'” said Kelley Didion, the author’s niece.
Didion received numerous awards including the National Book Award for her memoir, “The Year of Magical Thinking.”
In 2012, former President Barack Obama awarded Didion with the National Humanities Medal.
“Her legacy is to realize that you can grow, you can take the place that you’re from, that you love with you, and you can go out into the world and make a difference,” Kelley Didion said.
With the hopes of continuing her legacy, Didion’s family and the Sacramento Historical Society donated $500,000 to the college.
Sacramento City College President Albert Garcia said the donation from the family helped fund a scholarship for student writers and faculty.
“One faculty member each year has an opportunity to do research, historical research or other kinds of research about the area, sort of honoring Joan Didion,” Garcia said.
Didion died in December 2021 at the age of 87.
The Joan Didion Learning Resource Center will also be a place where aspiring writers can connect with her work.
“They’ll access her work for the first time, and that that’s our hope that it will just become accessible to generations of students to follow,” Kelley Didion said.
See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter
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