Casey,
the article didn't mention Joan Didion, which prompted me to wonder how exactly is she a descendant of a Donner Party member. Per a 1979 New York Times profile,
https://www.nytimes.com/1979... more
Thanks, Dan — Casey Tefertiller,Mon Dec 27 2021 5:37
Another of Joan Didion's lodestars was Ernest Hemingway. Here's something she wrote about him in 1998:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1998/11/09/last-words-6