- 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 ofGuillermo 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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