List of San Francisco Bay Area writers

A

Chester Aaron (May 9, 1923 – ) An American Ghost

Scott Adams (June 8, 1957 – ) Dilbert

Kim Addonizio (July 31, 1954 – ) My Dreams Out in the Street

David M. Alexander (1945 – ) My Real Name Is Lisa

Isabel Allende (August 2, 1942 – ) The House of the Spirits

Dorothy Allison (April 11, 1949 – ) Bastard out of Carolina

Charlie Anders, Six Months, Three Days

Brent Anderson (June 15, 1955 – ) Astro City series

Sarah Andrews, An Eye For Gold

Tamim Ansary (November 4, 1948 – ) West of Kabul, East of New York

B

Natalie Baszile, Queen Sugar

Peter S. Beagle (April 20, 1939 – ) The Last Unicorn

John Bear (1938 – ) Bears' Guide to Earning Degrees by Distance Learning

Dodie Bellamy, Pink Steam

Terry Bisson (February 12, 1942 – ) "They're Made Out of Meat"

Vance Bourjaily (September 17, 1922 – August 31, 2010) Brill Among the Ruins

Steven R. Boyett, Elegy Beach

Kate Braverman (1950 – ) "Squandering the Blue"

Luther Burbank (March 7, 1849 – April 11, 1926) How Plants are Trained to Work for Man

C

Patrick Califia (1954 – ) Speaking Sex to Power

Gail Carriger (May 4, 1976 – ) Soulless

Michael Chabon (May 24, 1963 – ) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Belo Cipriani (June 21, 1980 – ) Blind: A Memoir

Ann Weiser Cornell (1949 – ) The Power of Focusing

D

Avram Davidson (April 23, 1923 – May 8, 1993) The Scarlet Fig

Kyra Davis, Sex, Murder and a Double Latte

Tiffanie DeBartolo (November 27, 1970 – ) How To Kill a Rock Star, Dream for an Insomniac

Alonzo Delano (July 2, 1806 – September 8, 1874) On the Trail to the California Gold Rush

Diane di Prima (August 6, 1934 – ) Loba

N. A. Diaman (November 1, 1936 – ) Castro Street Memories

Philip K. Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Greg Downs (November 22, 1971 – ) Spit Baths

Howard Dully (November 30, 1948 – ) My Lobotomy

E

Dossie Easton (February 26, 1944 – ) The Ethical Slut

Dave Eggers (March 12, 1970 – ) A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, You Shall Know Our Velocity

Duane Elgin (1943 – ) Voluntary Simplicity

Stephen Elliott (December 3, 1971 – ) Happy Baby

F

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (March 24, 1919 – ) A Coney Island of the Mind

Timothy Ferris (August 29, 1944 – ) The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report

Karen Joy Fowler (February 7, 1950 – ) The Jane Austen Book Club

Soma Mei Sheng Frazier

Robert Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

G

Michelle Gagnon (July 4, 1971 – ) Don't Turn Around

Cristina Garcia, Dreaming in Cuban; The Aguero Sisters; King of Cuba

Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970) Perry Mason novels

Eric Garris (December 1953 – )

Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) "Howl"

Robert Gluck (February 2, 1947 –) Jack the Modernist, Margery Kempe

Herbert Gold (March 9, 1924 – ) Birth of a Hero

Lisa Goldstein (November 21, 1953 – ) The Red Magician

Daphne Gottlieb (1968 – ) Final Girl

Judy Grahn (July 28, 1940 – ) A Woman is Talking to Death

Susan Griffin (January 26, 1943) Woman and Nature: the Roaring Inside Her

H

Katie Hafner (1957 –) A Romance on Three Legs

Dashiell Hammett (1894 – 1961)

Daniel Handler (February 28, 1970 – ) A Series of Unfortunate Events

Jean Hegland (1956 – ) Into the Forest

John L. Hennessy (1953 – ) Computer Organization and Design

Dorothy J. Heydt, A Point of Honor

Jack Hirschman (1933 – )

Jane Hirshfield (February 24, 1953 – ) The Ink Dark Moon

Adam Hochschild (1942 – ) King Leopold's Ghost

Khaled Hosseini (March 4, 1965 – ) The Kite Runner

Daedalus Howell (July 19, 1972 – ) The Late Projectionist

J

Shirley Jackson (1916 – 1965)

K

Richard Kadrey (1957 – ) From Myst to Riven

Alan Kaufman, Jew Boy

Jack Kerouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) On the Road

Laleh Khadivi, The Walking; The Age of Orphans

Derek Kirk Kim (1974 – ) Same Difference and Other Stories

Laurie R. King (September 19, 1952 – ) The Beekeeper's Apprentice

Maxine Hong Kingston (October 27, 1940 – ) The Woman Warrior

Ellen Klages (1954 – ) "Basement Magic"

L

Michael Lederer (July 9, 1956 – ) Cadaqués

Ursula K. Le Guin (October 21, 1929 – ) The Dispossessed

Gus Lee (1946 – )

Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. (1910 – 1992)

Daniel Levitin (1957 – )

Michael Lewis (October 15, 1960 – ) Liar's Poker

Jack London (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) "To Build a Fire"

Ki Longfellow (December 9, 1944 – ) "The Secret Magdalene"

M

Nick Mamatas (February 20, 1972 – ) Move Under Ground

Micheline Aharonian Marcom (1968 – ) Three Apples Fell from Heaven

Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

Armistead Maupin (May 13, 1944 – ) Tales of the City

Cathleen Miller (February 13, 1956 –) Champion of Choice

Joaquin Miller (September 8, 1837 – February 17, 1913) "Columbus"

John Muir (1838 – 1914)

N

Annalee Newitz (1969 – ) White Trash: Race and Class in America

Janis Cooke Newman (1955 – ) Mary: Mrs. A. Lincoln

Wendy Newman (1967 – ) 121 First Dates: How to Succeed at Online Dating, Fall in Love, and Live Happily Ever After (Really!)

Bich (Beth) Minh Nguyen, Stealing Buddha's Dinner; Short Girls; Pioneer Girl

Katia Noyes, Crashing America

O

Carol Anne O'Marie (1933 – 2009)

P

Charlotte Painter (1926 – ) The Fortunes of Laurie Breaux

Stephan Pastis (January 16, 1968 – ) Pearls Before Swine

Diana Paxson (February 20, 1943 – ) Mistress of the Jewels

Howard Pease (September 6, 1894 – April 14, 1974) The Tod Moran Mysteries

Aimee Phan, We Should Never Meet; The Reeducation of Cherry Truong

Michael Pollan (February 6, 1955 – ) The Omnivore's Dilemma

Tim Pratt (December 12, 1976 – ) The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl

Q

Carol Queen (1958 – ) Real Live Nude Girl

Lisa Quinn, $500 Room Makeovers

R

Justin Raimondo (November 18, 1951 – ) Reclaiming the American Right

Ruth Reichl (January 16, 1948 – ) Tender at the Bone

Daniel Reid (1948 – ) Guarding the Three Treasures

Mark Rein-Hagen, Vampire: The Masquerade

Kathryn Reiss (December 4, 1957 – ) Time Windows

Barbara Jane Reyes (1971 – ) Poeta en San Francisco

Kim Stanley Robinson (March 23, 1952 – ) Red Mars

Rudy Rucker (March 22, 1946 – ) Software

S

Kate Schatz (September 19, 1978 – ) Rad American Women A-Z

Ariel Schrag (December 29, 1979 – ) Awkward

Charles M. Schulz (November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000) Peanuts

Kemble Scott (1962 – ) SoMa

Mary Ann Shaffer (December 13, 1934 – February 16, 2008) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Asha K. Sharma, An American in Khadi: The Definitive Biography of Satyanand Stokes

Dave Smeds (1955 – ) The Sorcery Within

Jane Smiley (September 26, 1949 – ) A Thousand Acres

Jeremy Adam Smith, The Daddy Shift

Gary Snyder (1930 – )

Rebecca Solnit (1961 – ) River of Shadows

Starhawk (June 17, 1951 – ) The Spiral Dance

Joseph Staten, Halo: Contact Harvest

George R. Stewart (May 31, 1895 – August 22, 1980) Pickett's Charge

Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet (born 1968) The Greenhouse

Rachel Swirsky (April 14, 1982 – ) "The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window"

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, That's Revolting!

T

Amy Tan (February 19, 1952 – ) The Joy Luck Club

Michelle Tea (1971 – ) Rose of No Man's Land

Daniel Terdiman (May 31, 1974 – ) The Entrepreneur's Guide to Second Life

Walter Tevis (1928 – 1994)

Robert Alfred Theobald (1884 – 1957) The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor

Adrian Tomine, Optic Nerve

Gail Tsukiyama, The Samurai's Garden

Mark Twain (1835 – April 21, 1910) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

V

Abraham Verghese (1955 – ) My Own Country

W

Ayelet Waldman (December 11, 1964 – ) Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

Alice Walker (February 9, 1944 – ) The Color Purple

Vivian Walsh, Olive, the Other Reindeer

Alice Waters (April 28, 1944 – ) The Art of Simple Food

Jacob Weisman (February 23, 1965 – ) Death and the Elephant

Herman Whitaker (1867 – 1919) The Mystery of the Barranca

Sean Wilsey (1970 – ) Oh the Glory of It All

Yvor Winters (October 17, 1900 – January 25, 1968) "The Testament of a Stone"

Naomi Wolf (1962 – )

Tobias Wolff (June 19, 1945 – ) This Boy's Life

Russ Woody, The Wheel of Nuldoid

Y

Laurence Yep (1948 – )

Z

Daisy Zamora (June 20, 1950 – ) En limpio se escribe la vida

Helen Zia (1952 – )