Fifth-generation Californian, novelist and essayist Joan Didion, who was born and raised in Sacramento, will be inducted into the California Hall of Fame on Oct. 1. Blood in the Fields: Ten Years Inside California’s Nuestra Familia Gang. The Monogram Murders: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery Hercule Poirot Mysteries by Sophie Hannah. Actress Joan Didion attends the American Theatre Wing’s annual gala at the Plaza Hotel on Monday Sept.