You may have heard that Joan Didion’s estate was auctioned off yesterday. The final total was $1,920,700, all of which was donated to two charities — Columbia Presbyterian Hospital and University, for research and patient care of Parkinson’s and other movement disorders, and the Sacramento Historical Society, to benefit a scholarship at Sacramento City College for women writers. (Didion was born and mostly raised in Sacramento, and when she died last December at age 87, it was from complications from Parkinson’s.)
Fantastic piece. Thanks for sharing photos of the sale.
Really love this reflection on Joan and what we leave behind, Alissa.