List of fiction set in Pittsburgh

List of fiction set in Pittsburgh

List of fiction set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Books

*"The Stolen Child"
*"Out of This Furnace" by Thomas Bell
*"The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" by Michael Chabon
*"Wonder Boys" by Michael Chabon
*"Burning Valley" by Philip Bonosky
*"The Homewood Books" by John Edgar Wideman
*"Blood on the Forge" by William Attaway
*"Captains and Kings" by Taylor Caldwell
*"Steel Ashes"
*"Coal Bones"
*"The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes" by K.C. Constantine
*"Taken" by Kathleen George
*"Fallen" by Kathleen George
*"Afterimage" by Kathleen George
*"Another Kind of Monday" by William Coles
*"Christine" by Stephen King
*"Ukiah Oregon" series
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*"An American Childhood" by Annie Dillard
*"Miss New York Has Everything"
*"The Memory Keeper's Daughter"
*"Lethal Legacy" by Gerald Myers
*"Doubly Dead" by Randall Silvis
*"The Last Chicken in America" by Ellen Litman
*"The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky

Film

*"Pittsburgh" (1942)
*"The Valley of Decision" (1945)(1978)
*"The Deer Hunter" (1978)
*"The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh" (1979)
*"Flashdance" (1983)
*"Lady Beware" (1987)
*"Dominick and Eugene" (1988)
*"Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh" (1991)
*"Innocent Blood" (1992)
*"Striking Distance" (1993)
*"Groundhog Day" (1993)
*"Only You" (1994)
*"Sudden Death" (1995)
*"Houseguest" (1995)
*"Diabolique" (1996)
*"Inspector Gadget" (1999)
*"Stigmata" (1999)
*"Wonder Boys" (2000)
*"Screwed" (2000)
*"The Bread My Sweet" (2001)
*"The Clearing" (2004)
*"Land of the Dead" (2005)
*"The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" (2007)
*"Smart People" (2008)

Plays

*The Pittsburgh CycleIn 2005, August Wilson completed a ten-play cycle, nine of which are set in Pittsburgh, chronicling the African-American experience in the 20th century. These are:
**1900s - "Gem of the Ocean" (2003)
**1910s - "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" (1984)
**1920s - "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" (1982) - set in Chicago
**1930s - "The Piano Lesson" (1986) - Pulitzer Prize
**1940s - "Seven Guitars" (1995)
**1950s - "Fences" (1985) - Pulitzer Prize
**1960s - "Two Trains Running" (1990)
**1970s - "Jitney" (1982)
**1980s - "King Hedley II" (2001)
**1990s - "Radio Golf" (2005)

Television shows

*"The Guardian"
*"Hope and Gloria"
*"The Lost Room"
*"Mister Rogers' Neighborhood"
*"Mr. Belvedere"
*"My So-Called Life"
*"Sirens"
*"Queer as Folk" (US version)
*"Back to You (TV series)"

Other

*"Firestorm the Nuclear Man"
*"The Cemetery Club"
*"Gung Ho"
*"Rock Star"
*"Screwed"
*"A Model World"
*"Sent for You Yesterday"
*"Brothers and Keepers"
*"Star Brand"
*"The Pitt"


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