Diana Marcum (1963 – August 9, 2023) was an American writer and journalist, focused especially on California's Central Valley.
She was a 2018 Nieman Fellow, and won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, for her series "Scenes from California's Dust Bowl".
[1] Marcum worked as an assistant at The San Bernardino Sun as a young woman, then became a reporter.
[3][4] 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".
[7] Marcum died in 2023, at the age of 60, in Fresno, California, after surgery to remove a brain tumor.