List of fiction set in Oregon

The following are authors, filmmakers, musicians, and other performers, and their products, associated with Oregon.

Literature

Authors

* Children's author Beverly Cleary set many of her stories in Portland, and used many references to the city in them. Henry Huggins, for instance, lived on Klickitat Street, while Ramona Quimby was named for Quimby Street. [ [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12011434/site/newsweek/ Beverly Cleary, Age 90 (2006 Newsweek Interview)] ]
* David James Duncan, author of The River Why (set in rural Oregon), grew up in Portland.
* Katherine Dunn came to Portland to attend Reed College and lives there still. Her novel "Geek Love" is partially set in Portland. [ [http://www.wweek.com/html/25-what.html article in Willamette Week] ]
* Ursula K. Le Guin, Grand Master author of speculative fiction, has lived in Portland since 1958. "The Lathe of Heaven", one of her most renowned novels, is set in a future Portland.
*Author Jean Auel currently lives in Portland with her husband. She attended both Portland State University and the University of Portland. [ [http://www.literary-arts.org/ladybug/files/SpecialAwards.release.pdf article from LiteraryArts.org] ]
* "Fight Club" author Chuck Palahniuk wrote an alternative travelogue of the city titled "". [cite news
date=July 18, 2003
title=Palahniuk paints a lovingly twisted picture of the not-so-rosy Portland
author=JOHN MARSHALL
work=SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
accessdate=2007-06-21]
* Author Steve Perry writer of a number of movie adaptations, Batman cartoons, Conan novels, a couple Star Wars novels, a wonderful series called 'The Man Who Never Missed' and numerous other projects and short stories. He enjoys teasing his editors by leaving situation references in his books from other works he has written. Scattered through a number of his works are the names from Portland and other locations throughout the Pacific Northwest.
* Author Ken Kesey, wrote "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", which takes place in an Oregon asylum.

Books

* "The Bridge of the Gods: A Romance of Indian Oregon" by Frederick Homer Balch, published in 1890, is the earliest novel set in Oregon.
* "", by Richard Brautigan
* "Honey in the Horn" by H. L. Davis -- this sardonic look at pioneer life in rural Oregon won the Pulitzer prize.
* "Sometimes a Great Notion" by Ken Kesey -- the story of a family of "gyppo" (or contract) loggers.
* "Trask" by Don Berry -- Elbridge Trask, former mountain man, is the first to farm the grasslands along the Tillamook Bay
* "Blue Like Jazz" by Donald Miller – a semi-autobiographical book by a Portland author, concerning Christianity and "… [drawing] heavily on Portland's deep pool of oddballs" [cite news
last=Dundas
first=Zach
title=Confessions of a dangerous mind
work=Willamette Week
url=http://www.wweek.com/editorial/3113/5974/
date=February 2nd, 2005
accessdate=2007-06-21]
* "" nonfiction by Chuck Palahniuk
* "Invisible Monsters" by Chuck Palahniuk
* "Geek Love" by Katherine Dunn
* "Ramona Quimby, Age 8" and other children's books by Beverly Cleary
* "The Lathe of Heaven" by Ursula K. Le Guin – a novel set in Portland. [cite web
title=Lathe of Heaven (Synopsis)
first=Anderson
last=Smith
publisher=Science Fiction Museum
url=http://www.sciencefictionmuseum.com/stories/reviews/snop003.html]
* "Paranoid Park" by Blake Nelson
* "Dies the Fire" and sequels by S. M. Stirling – science fiction novels set in the Willamette Valley and other parts of the Pacific Northwest [cite web
title=Dies the Fire (review)
author=Paul Di Filippo
url=http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue382/books.html
publisher=SciFi.com/Off the Shelf]
* "Violence of Action" by Richard Marcinko
* "Winterkill" by Craig Lesley
* "The Postman" by David Brin - largely in the Willamette Valley, with a notable scene in the University of Oregon fishbowl.
*"Most Likely To Die" Various authors. (Collaboration) 2/3 of book set in Portland, OR.

Film

Filmmakers

* "Se7en" and "Zodiac" director David Fincher graduated from Ashland High School.
* Director Brad Bird graduated from Corvallis High School.
* Director Todd Haynes lives in Oregon.
* Director Gus Van Sant has achieved commercial and critical acclaim for his films, including "My Own Private Idaho", "Drugstore Cowboy", "Good Will Hunting" (which earned Van Sant a best director Oscar nomination) and "Elephant" (which won the Palme d'Or and a best director award at the Cannes Film Festival). [cite news
title=The camera man: how Gus Van Sant made Portland cool
author=DAVID WALKER
work=Willamette Week
date=March 9th, 2005
accessdate=2007-06-21]
* Will Vinton Studios, a famous producer of animated films (especially clay animation); noted for the feature film Return to Oz, the California Raisins television commercials of the 1980s, Eddie Murphy's television show The PJs. [cite news
author=AARON MESH
title=Toon town
work=Willamette Week
date=June 20th, 2007
accessdate=2007-06-21]

Films

* "Mr. Brooks" (2007) - The title character, Mr. Brooks, is named the Portland Chamber of Commerce’s Man of the Year.
* "What the Bleep Do We Know?!"(2004) - Filmed in the Pearl District, Southeast Portland (including the Bagdad Theater), the MAX tunnel and various areas of Downtown Portland
* "Antitrust" (2001) - Story takes place in Portland, with many shots done in downtown Portland
* "Bandits" (2001) - Bruce Willis
* "Body of Evidence" (1993) - Madonna
* "Bongwater"
* "Closed Mondays" (1974) - produced in Portland by Will Vinton and Bob Gardiner winner of the Academy Award for Animated Short Film
* "The Day Called X Made for TV movies from the 1950s about cold war preparedness. Google video here http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5447108147132189911
* "Drugstore Cowboy" - Directed by Gus Van Sant
* "Elephant" - Directed by Gus Van Sant
* "Feast of Love" - Based on the novel by Charles Baxter
* "First Love" (1977) - filmed on the Reed College campus
* "Five Easy Pieces" (1970) - Jack Nicholson
* "Foxfire" (1996) - filmed in part at Lincoln High School
* "Free Willy"
* "The Goonies", set in and filmed in Astoria
* "Hear No Evil" (1993)
* "The Hunted" (2003) - recognizable city-shots filmed in Portland. [cite news
title=Theaters to nab ‘The Hunted’ in February
first=Jennifer
last=Anderson
work=Portland Tribune
url=http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=14961
date=November 19, 2002
accessdate=2007-06-27]
* "Jackass" (the film (1 & 2) and much of the TV show)
* "Kindergarten Cop" (1990) - Most of the film is set in Astoria Elementary School
* "The Last Innocent Man" (1987) - TV movie
* "The Lathe of Heaven" - PBS TV movie based on the novel by Ursula K. Le Guin. Features the Portland Plaza Condominiums as a futuristic building.
* "Love at Large" (1990)
* "Me and You and Everyone We Know" - Set in Los Angeles, but with many references to Portland locations and institutions
* "Men of Honor"
* "Mona Lisa Descending A Staircase" (1992) - produced in Portland by Joan C. Gratz, winner of the Academy Award for Animated Short Film
* "Mr. Holland's Opus" - filmed around Grant High School
* "My Own Private Idaho" - Directed by Gus Van Sant
* "Old Joy" - Directed by Kelly Reichardt
* "Paranoid Park" - Directed by Gus Van Sant
* "Sacred Ground" (1983) - filmed in Chiloquin and Klamath Falls
* "Say Uncle"
* "Short Circuit" (1986) - filmed in large part in Astoria, with some scenes in West Portland
* "Sometimes a Great Notion" - based on Ken Kesey's novel; filmed at various locations on the Oregon coast, including Kernville and Newport.
* "The Temp"
* "Untraceable" - filmed entirely in Portland metro area
* "Without A Paddle" - Curt. of JC from Tigard
* "Zero Effect"
* "Into the Wild" (2007) - Filmed at Glisan Street Shelter (TPI) in Old Town, Portland, OR
* "Twilight" (2008) - Filmed in various locations around Washington and the Portland, OR area.

Television

* Matt Groening, who graduated from Portland's Lincoln High School, is responsible for creating two of the most popular animated television series of the last two decades, "The Simpsons" and "Futurama". Many of the character names in The Simpsons are taken from street names in Portland (Flanders, Rev. Lovejoy, etc.)cite news |first=Don |last=Hamilton |title=Matt Groening's Portland |url=http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=12392 |work=Portland Tribune |date=2002-07-19 |accessdate= 2007-04-28]
* "Nowhere Man" - filmed largely in and around Portland, Oregon
*The situation comedy "Hello Larry" was set in Portland.
*The O.C.'s season 2 premiere is partly set in Portland ; Seth was there all summer.
*LOST had an episode named Not in Portland, and the main villain Benjamin Linus was born in a forest just outside of Portland.

See also

* Music of Oregon
* List of artists and art institutions in Portland, Oregon
* List of lists about Oregon

References

External links

* [http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Content?oid=273542&category=22148 "Reading Portland: The City in Prose"] , "The Portland Mercury"