List of San Francisco Bay Area writers
This is a list of San Francisco Bay Area writers, notable writers who have lived in, or written about, the San Francisco Bay Area.
A
- Chester Aaron, An American Ghost
- Scott Adams, Dilbert
- Kim Addonizio, My Dreams Out in the Street
- Laura Albert, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
- David M. Alexander, My Real Name Is Lisa
- Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
- Dorothy Allison, Bastard out of Carolina
- Charlie Jane Anders, Six Months, Three Days
- Brent Anderson, Astro City series
- Robert Mailer Anderson, Boonville, The Adventures of Teddy Ballgame, Windows on the World
- Sarah Andrews, An Eye For Gold
- Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Tamim Ansary, West of Kabul, East of New York
- Mary Therese Austin, theater critic, ''The Argonaut''
B
- Natalie Baszile, Queen Sugar
- Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
- John Bear, Bears' Guide to Earning Degrees by Distance Learning
- Dodie Bellamy, Pink Steam
- Hester A. Benedict, president, Pacific Coast Women's Press Association
- Ambrose Bierce
- Terry Bisson, "They're Made Out of Meat"
- Vance Bourjaily, Brill Among the Ruins
- Steven R. Boyett, Elegy Beach
- Kate Braverman, "Squandering the Blue"
- Gray Brechin, "Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin"
- Genea Brice, poet laureate of Vallejo, California
- Luther Burbank, ''How Plants are Trained to Work for Man''
C
- Patrick Califia, Speaking Sex to Power
- Ethan Canin, For Kings and Planets
- Gail Carriger, Soulless
- Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- Belo Cipriani, Blind: A Memoir
- Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London, The Race for Paris, The Wednesday Sisters
- Mark Coggins August Riordan novels
- Ann Weiser Cornell, The Power of Focusing
- Andy Couturier, ''The Abundance of Less''
D
- Avram Davidson, The Scarlet Fig
- Kyra Davis, Sex, Murder and a Double Latte
- Tiffanie DeBartolo, How To Kill a Rock Star, Dream for an Insomniac
- Alonzo Delano, On the Trail to the California Gold Rush
- Diane di Prima, Loba
- N. A. Diaman, Castro Street Memories
- Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- Greg Downs, Spit Baths
- Howard Dully, My Lobotomy
- Robert Duncan, The Opening of the Field, ''Bending the Bow''
E
- Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut
- Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, You Shall Know Our Velocity
- Duane Elgin, Voluntary Simplicity
- Stephen Elliott, ''Happy Baby''
F
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the Mind
- Timothy Ferris, The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe Report
- Karen Joy Fowler, The Jane Austen Book Club
- Soma Mei Sheng Frazier
- Robert Frost, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
G
- Michelle Gagnon, Don't Turn Around
- Cristina Garcia, Dreaming in Cuban; The Aguero Sisters; King of Cuba
- Erle Stanley Gardner, Perry Mason novels
- Eric Garris
- Allen Ginsberg, "Howl"
- Robert Gluck, Jack the Modernist, Margery Kempe
- Herbert Gold, Birth of a Hero
- Lisa Goldstein, The Red Magician
- Joe Gores Dan Kearney and Associates novels
- Daphne Gottlieb, Final Girl
- Judy Grahn, A Woman Is Talking to Death
- Andrew Sean Greer, Less
- Susan Griffin, ''Woman and Nature: the Roaring Inside Her ''
H
- Katie Hafner, A Romance on Three Legs
- Dashiell Hammett
- Daniel Handler, A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Jean Hegland, Into the Forest
- John L. Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design
- Dorothy J. Heydt, A Point of Honor
- Jack Hirschman
- Jane Hirshfield, The Ink Dark Moon
- Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost
- Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
- Daedalus Howell, ''The Late Projectionist''
J
K
- Richard Kadrey, From Myst to Riven
- Alan Kaufman, Jew Boy
- Jack Kerouac, On the Road
- Laleh Khadivi, The Walking; The Age of Orphans
- Derek Kirk Kim, Same Difference and Other Stories
- Carla King, American Borders, Stories from Elsewhere
- Laurie R. King, The Beekeeper's Apprentice
- Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
- Ellen Klages, "Basement Magic"
L
- Howard Lachtman, American academic, literary critic, editor and author
- Anne Lamott, Hard Laughter
- D.L. Lang, poet laureate of Vallejo, California
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
- Michael Lederer, Cadaqués
- Gus Lee
- Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr.
- Donna Levin, The Talking Stick
- Daniel Levitin, This Is Your Brain On Music, The Organized Mind
- Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker
- Jack London, "To Build a Fire"
- Ki Longfellow, "The Secret Magdalene"
M
- Nick Mamatas, Move Under Ground
- Micheline Aharonian Marcom, Three Apples Fell from Heaven
- Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
- Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City
- Terry McMillan, Waiting to Exhale
- Cathleen Miller, Champion of Choice
- Joaquin Miller, "Columbus"
- Christopher Moore, Bloodsucking Fiends
- John Muir
N
- Annalee Newitz, White Trash: Race and Class in America
- Janis Cooke Newman, Mary: Mrs. A. Lincoln
- Wendy Newman, 121 First Dates: How to Succeed at Online Dating, Fall in Love, and Live Happily Ever After
- Beth Nguyen, Stealing Buddha's Dinner; Short Girls; Pioneer Girl
- Katia Noyes, ''Crashing America''
O
P
- Charlotte Painter, The Fortunes of Laurie Breaux
- Stephan Pastis, Pearls Before Swine
- Diana Paxson, Mistress of the Jewels
- Howard Pease, The Tod Moran Mysteries
- Aimee Phan, We Should Never Meet; The Reeducation of Cherry Truong
- Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma
- Tim Pratt, ''The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl''
Q
- Carol Queen, Real Live Nude Girl
- Lisa Quinn, ''$500 Room Makeovers''
R
- Justin Raimondo, Reclaiming the American Right
- Ruth Reichl, Tender at the Bone
- Mark Rein-Hagen, Vampire: The Masquerade
- Kathryn Reiss, Time Windows
- Barbara Jane Reyes, Poeta en San Francisco
- Rudy Rucker, ''Software''
S
- William Saroyan
- Kate Schatz, Rad American Women A-Z
- Ariel Schrag, Awkward
- Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts
- Kemble Scott, SoMa
- Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- Dave Smeds, The Sorcery Within
- Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
- Jeremy Adam Smith, The Daddy Shift
- Gary Snyder
- Jeremy Snyder, poet laureate of Vallejo, California
- Rebecca Solnit, River of Shadows
- Starhawk, The Spiral Dance
- Joseph Staten, Halo: Contact Harvest
- Danielle Steel
- Melissa Stein, Rough Honey, Terrible Blooms
- George Sterling
- George R. Stewart, Pickett's Charge
- Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet, The Greenhouse
- Emelie Tracy Y. Swett, Californian Illustrated Magazine
- Rachel Swirsky, "The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window"
- Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, ''That's Revolting!''
T
- Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
- Michelle Tea, Rose of No Man's Land
- Daniel Terdiman, The Entrepreneur's Guide to Second Life
- Walter Tevis
- Robert Alfred Theobald, The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor
- Adrian Tomine, Optic Nerve
- Gail Tsukiyama, The Samurai's Garden
- Mark Twain, ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer''
V
W
- Ayelet Waldman, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
- Alice Walker, The Color Purple
- Vivian Walsh, Olive, the Other Reindeer
- Alice Waters, The Art of Simple Food
- Jacob Weisman, Death and the Elephant
- Herman Whitaker, The Mystery of the Barranca
- Sean Wilsey, Oh the Glory of It All
- Yvor Winters, "The Testament of a Stone"
- Emma Wolf, A Prodigal in Love
- Naomi Wolf
- Tobias Wolff, This Boy's Life
- Russ Woody, ''The Wheel of Nuldoid''
Y
Z
- Daisy Zamora, En limpio se escribe la vida
- Helen Zia