List of fiction set in Pittsburgh

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List of fiction set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Contents 1 Books 2 Film 3 Plays 4 Television shows 5 Other

[edit] 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
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• Settling Accounts: Drive to the East
• 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

[edit] Film

See also: List of films and television shows shot in Pittsburgh

• 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)
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
• Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh (1991)
• Innocent Blood (1992)
• Striking Distance (1993)
• Groundhog Day (1993)
• Only You (1994)
• Sudden Death (1995)
• Houseguest (1995)
• Diabolique (1996)
• Kingpin (1996)
• Dogma (1999)
• 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)

[edit] Plays

• The Pittsburgh Cycle

In 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)

[edit] Television shows

See also: List of films and television shows shot in Pittsburgh

• 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)

[edit] 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