Boston in fiction

This articles lists various works of fiction that takes place in Boston, Massachusetts:

Literature

*"Altered States" by Paddy Chayefsky
*"The Bostonians", by Henry James; life in aristocratic Boston during the late nineteenth century.
*"The Late George Apley", by John P. Marquand. A tragicomic satire of the life of an upper-class Bostonian from the mid-19th century to the Great Depression. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
* Boston Adventure, by Jean Stafford
* Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries by Linda Barnes; Featuring a 6'1" redheaded, taxi-driving detective in Boston.
*"Cell" by Stephen King; A traditional zombie story set in present-day Boston.
*"The Da Vinci Code", by Dan Brown; Boston is the home of protagonist Robert Langdon.
*"The Handmaid's Tale", by Margaret Atwood; post-nuclear Cambridge and Boston are the setting of this dystopian novel.
*"Home Before Dark", by Eileen Bassing
*"Infinite Jest", by David Foster Wallace is set in a partly fictionalized Boston.
*"Johnny Tremain", by Esther Forbes takes place in Boston in the early 1770s.
*"Kane and Abel", Jeffrey Archer's novel about rivalry. William Kane is from Boston.
*"Karma and Other Stories", short stories by Rishi Reddi.
*"Last Dance", by Lee Grove.
*"The Last Hurrah", by Edwin O'Connor; O'Connor's 1956 account of big-city politics, inspired by the career of longtime Boston Mayor James Michael Curley.
*"Looking Backward", utopian novel written in 1887 and set in Boston in 2000
*"Love Story", by Erich Segal
*"Make Way for Ducklings", iconic children's picture book taking place in Boston Public Garden
*"The Sound and the Fury", by William Faulkner; part of the story finds its setting in Boston.
*"The Namesake", by Jhumpa Lahiri, set largely in Cambridge and Boston, explores the difficulties of Indian-Americans making their homes in America.
* The Spenser detective novels, by Robert B. Parker.
*"Zodiac", by Neal Stephenson; an eco-thriller focusing on industrial pollution in the Boston Harbor.
*"The Timeline-191 series", by Harry Turtledove; has many characters who live in or are from the Boston Area
*"Pickman's Model" by H. P. Lovecraft; takes place in Boston
* The Dante Club, a murder mystery featuring Harvard personalities Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, as well as publisher James Thomas Fields takes place in Boston and Cambridge, by Matthew Pearl (2003).
*"The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America", where Michelle Tea charts the turbulent adventures in Boston's teenage goth world
*"Rent Girl", Michelle Tea's graphic memoir of sex work in Boston, illustrated by Laurenn McCubbin
* On Beauty, novel by Zadie Smith (2005), takes place partly in a fictional town outside Boston. Parts of Boston centre are visited.
* Shutter Island, novel by Dennis Lehane, takes place on a fictional Island on the Boston Harbor
* The "Sarah Kelling / Max Bittersohn" mystery series by Charlotte MacLeod

Television

*"Park Street Under"
*"The Practice". A television series centered on a Boston law firm.
*"Boston Legal". A television series centered on a Boston law firm.
*"Boston Public". A television series centered on a Boston public school.
*"Cheers", by Charles-Burrow-Charles Productions and Paramount Pictures. A television series centered on a Boston bar, which in reality is the Bull & Finch Pub.
* "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody", a comedy show made for the younger audience that takes place in Boston
*" Sabrina, the teenage Witch"
*"" featuring Robert Ulrich playing the Robert B. Parker character
*"Boston Common", a comedy about attending a fictional Boston college featuring Anthony Clark
*"Ally McBeal", a romantic comedy very popular in the late 90s.
*"Crossing Jordan", a crime drama, following the life of Boston Medical Examiner Jordan Cavanaugh and her co-workers.
*"Unhitched", a series about a group of newly single friends learning the lessons of starting over in their 30s.
*"St. Elsewhere", a drama series set in the fictional St. Eligius Hospital in Boston.
*"The Paper Chase (TV series)", based on the movie of the same name.

Film

* "21", a fictionalized account of the very-unofficial MIT Blackjack Team
* "Blown Away" depicts the Boston Bomb Squad dealing with a mad bomber.
* "The Boondock Saints"
* "The Boston Strangler (film)", depicting a famous serial killer, played by Tony Curtis
* "The Brink's Job", a dramatization of the famous robbery.
* "A Civil Action" is set in Boston and nearby Woburn.
* "The Departed", Martin Scorsese's most recent film, takes place in Boston with prominent use of Boston landmarks and culture.
* "Fever Pitch", is about a man's obsession with the Boston Red Sox.
* "Field of Dreams", Ray Kinsella's journey takes him through Boston to fetch Terence Mann.
* "The Firm", a film in which the opening takes place at Harvard.
* "The Friends of Eddie Coyle"
* "Gone Baby Gone", directed by Ben Affleck, takes place and was filmed in Boston.
* "Good Will Hunting" takes place in Boston: the characters live is South Boston, and some other action is set in Harvard and the M.I.T.
* "Home Before Dark" (1958), set in Boston and Cape Cod, is adapted from the novel by Eileen Bassing; original negative is lost
* "Mona Lisa Smile", featuring Julia Roberts as a nonconformist Wellesley College professor.
* "Monument Ave", a film about Boston's Charlestown neighborhood.
* "Mystic River", a film focusing on the moral ambiguities faced by people living in the mob-run streets of East and South Boston.
*"Next Stop Wonderland" takes place in Boston and the MBTA station Wonderland takes special significance.
*"The Paper Chase", a film about a student struggling through Harvard Law School (John Houseman won an Oscar for his role as Prof. Kingsfield)
*"Legally Blonde", about a ditzy Valley Girl in Harvard Law School.
*"Sacco and Vanzetti (film)", about the famous anarchists convicted of murder.
*"A Small Circle of Friends", Harvard in the 1960s.
*"The Surrogates", a futuristic police thriller starring Bruce Willis.
* "The Thomas Crown Affair" (the Steve McQueen version) is set in Boston. Thomas Crown lives in Beacon Hill.
* "The Verdict" is set in Boston.
* "The War of The Worlds" (the most recent remake) part of the story takes place in Boston.
* "X-Men United" Boston is the home of Bobby Drake, alias Iceman.

External links

* [http://webcas.cas.suffolk.edu/richman/Boston/bosbib.htm An annotated bibliography of fiction set in Boston]