Read the full article by Joan Cusick at Sacramento News & Review
Author Anne Da Vigo is rewriting the rules of what it means to be an older adult.
As a young journalist, she started her career at a small newspaper in Madera in the San Joaquin Valley. “There were two of us — both women, both covering the police in a small town. But when I moved up from that small paper to a larger paper in Bakersfield, I was only the second woman they’d hired since World War II. So in that situation, I was sort of a trendsetter as far as covering government and being out covering the city.”
She eventually moved on to the Sacramento Union, then to the state legislature as communications director and press secretary and finally to the California Highway Patrol as a public information officer. “So that’s my background — a lot of writing.”
Even after her official retirement, Da Vigo is still writing. Her third self-published thriller is due out at the end of this year. And, in the meantime, she stays active with weekly tap dance lessons and daily walks.