Sacramento writers

Sacramento writers

Notable writers with ties to Sacramento, California include:

*Ann Bannon, pulp fiction author
*Barbara Bitela, short story award winner and self-published novelist
*Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author
*Marcos Breton, author of books on baseball, winner of Guillermo Martinez-Marquez Award
*Dale Brown, adventure-suspense novelist
*Buck Busfield, playwright
*Timothy Busfield, children's playwright
*Herb Caen, legendary and longtime columnist for the "San Francisco Chronicle"
*Raymond Carver, short-story master lived in Sacramento, set several works there
*Gregg Coffin, playwright
*John D. Cox, author of general-audience books about weather, storms, meteorology
*Pete Dexter, National Book Award-winning novelist and screenwriter
*Joan Didion, essayist, novelist, and screenwriter
*William Everson, aka Brother Antoninus, poet
*Shaka Ford, science fiction writer
*Eric Hansen, travel writer
*Richard Hellesen, playwright
*Bob Devin Jones, playwright
*Karen Kijewski, mystery novelist
*Joyce Krieg, mystery novelist
*Philip Levine, poet
*Dale Maharidge, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
*Reneau Z. Peurifoy - author of self-help books
*Richard Rodriguez, essayist
*Nicholas Sparks, novelist
*Lincoln Steffens, investigative journalist, muckraker
*Anthony Swofford, novelist and Marine veteran
*Mark Twain, novelist and humorist
*William T. Vollmann - author
*Kenneth Walton, memoirist
*Cornel West, scholar on issues of religion, Marxism, American philosophy, racial matters


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