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Before California


An Old Map -- The notion that California was an island persisted in some quarters as late as th 1770's.

    The first mention of California in literature was in a 16th-century Spanish novel, Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Exploits of Espandian) by Garcí Ordóñez. "Know then, that west of the Indies, but to the east of Eden, lies California, an island peopled by a swarthy, robust, passionate race of women living manless like Amazons. Their island, the most rugged in the world, abounds in gold. Having no other metal, all their arms and armor are made of this gold."

    W. H. Hutchinson ; California: Two Centuries of Man, Land, & Growth in the Golden State


    Description from the 1771 Encyclopaedia Britannica:
      "CALLIFORNIA, a large country of the West Indies, lying between 116° and 118° W. Long. and between 23° and 46° N. Lat. It is uncertain wheather it be a peninsula or an island."




W. Babula J. Baloian D. Baker E. Bakker B. Barich
D. Barnes R. Batman R. Barrio W. Beck H. Bell
G. Berriault A. Bezzerides F. Bidart A. Bierce L. Bogen
Boise state University T. C. Boyle R. Brautigan K. Braverman W. H. Brewer
M. Brinig D. Bromige C. Brown D. Bryant C. Buckley
E. Bullins C. Bulosan C. Bukowski S. H. Burchell N. Bussch



Babula, William
The Winter of Mrs. Levy Drama


Baker, Dorothy
The Young Man With a Horn Fiction


Bakker, Elna
An Island Called California Non-fiction



Baloian, James and David Kherdian
Down at the Santa Fe Depot: Twenty Fresno Poets Anthology Fresno: Giligia Press 1970

Barich, Bill
Big Dreams Into the Heart of CaliforniaNon-fictionNew York: Pantheon1994

 Barnes, Dick
Lake on the Earth Poetry


Batman, Richard
The Outer CoastNon-fiction


Barrio, Raymond
The Plum, Plum Pickers Fiction


Beck, Warren A.
The California ExperienceAnthology


 Bell, Horace
Reminiscences of a RangerNon-fiction



Berriault, Gina
Conference of Victims Fiction

The Descent Fiction

The Lights of the Earth Fiction

The Infinite Passion of Expectxation Fiction

Women in Their Beds Fiction


Bezzerides, A. T
Long Haul Fiction


Bidart, Frank
Golden State Poetry New York; George Braziller 1973
The Book of the Body Poetry New York; Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1977
The Sacrifice Poetry New York; Random House 1983
In the Western Night: Collected Poems, 1965-1990 Poetry New York; Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1990

Bierce, Ambrose

    Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) was twenty-four years old and a distinguished veteran of the Civil War when he arrived in San Francisco in 1866. He eventually joined the staff of the San Francisco News Letter, a satirical journal. Later he became a fixture at the Examiner where he was know as "Bitter" Bierce for his fierce satiric voice.
    To friends such as Ina Coolbrith, Bret Harte, and Charles Warren Stoddard, he seemed a friendly sort, and he crusaded for high standards in literature. Among his own books, he produced at least one outstandng collections of short stories, Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891). As he grew older, his attitude darkened; he called San Francisco "the paradise of ignorance, anarchy and general yellowness." In 1913, his personal life a shambles, he walked into the Mexican Revolution and was never heard from again.
Tales of soldiers and CiviliansFiction
1891

 Bogen, Laurel Ann
The Projects Poetry






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