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 of Guillermo 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