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 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." Description from the 1771 Encyclopaedia Britannica:
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| Western Writers Series,includes booklets on many California authors | Non-fiction | See Western Writers Series |
T. Coraghessan Boyle, a native of Peekskill, New York, lives in the San Fernando Valley and teaches at the University of Southern California. Says Gary Soto, "Somehow Boyle has created a quirky, absolutely true vision of the L.A. area, something no local writer has, or probably could, do. He's got both the distance and the familiarity." Boyle's books such as The Descent of Man (1979), Water Music (1981), and If the River Was Whiskey (1989), ... have won him a long list of literary awards. | |||
| The Descent of Man | 1979 | ||
| Water Music | 1981 | ||
| If the River Was Whiskey | 1989 | ||
| A Confederate General from Big Sur | Fiction | ||
| Trout Fishing in America | Fiction | |
| Lithium for Media | Fiction | ||
| Palm Latitudes | Fiction | | |
| Squandering the Blue | Fiction | | |
| Storm Warnings | Poetry | |
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Willian Henry Brewer, a scientist and geologist, was assistant to Josiah Whitney in a geological survey of California in 1862-1864. | |||
| Up and Down California, 1860-64 | Non-fiction | Yale University Press | 1930 |
| Up and Down California, 1860-64: The Journal of William Henry Brewer | Non-fiction | Berkeley, CA; University of California Press | 1949,1966 |
| The Flutter of an Eyelid | Fiction | |
| Desire | Poetry | |
| The Disciple | Fiction | | 1968 |
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Dorothy Bryant is the author of ten novels, as well as two works of nonfiction and four plays. Most of her novels use Northern California settings. She was awarded an American Book Award in 1987 for her novel Confessions of Madame Psyche which has just been re-released by The Feminist Press in New York. Dorothy is a native San Franciscan, daughter of immigrants from northern Italy. She attended public schools in the San Francisco Mission District, then San Francisco State where she completed a B.A. in music and an M.A. in creative writing, her thesis novel winning an Honorable Mention in the Joseph Henry Jackson Awards. She taught in Bay Area high schools and colleges for 20 years. Her play Dear Master won recognition by the Bay Area Critics Circle and the Drama-Logue award as the best new play in 1991. She has also received the Bay Area Book Reviewer's Association, Award for Publishing 1986.  Sample
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| A Day in San Francisco | Fiction | Berkeley, CA; Ata Books | 1983 |
| Anita, Anita | Fiction | Berkeley, CA; Ata Books | 1993 |
| Confessions of Madame Psyche | Fiction | Berkeley, CA New York:The Feminist Press | 1986 1998 |
| Dear Master | Drama | Berkeley, CA; Ata Books | 1991 |
| Ella Price's Journal | Fiction | New York: Lippincott Berkeley, CA: Ata Books New York, The Feminist Press | 1972 1982 1997 |
| Killing Wonder | Fiction | Berkeley, CA; Ata Books New York; Warner London, England; Women's Press | 1981 1986 1984 |
| The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You | Fiction | New York; Random House | 1976 |
| The Garden of Eros | Fiction | Berkeley, CA; Ata Books | 1979 |
| Miss Giardino | Fiction | Berkeley CA; Ata Books New York; The Feminist Press | 1978 1997 |
| Myths to Lie By:essays and stories | Nonfiction | Berkeley, CA; Ata Books | 1984 |
| The Panel | Drama | Berkeley, CA; Ata Books | 1996 |
| Posing For Gauguin | Drama | Berkeley, CA; Ata Books | 1998 |
| Prisoners | Fiction | Berkeley, CA; Ata Books | 1980 |
| Tea with Mrs. Hardy | Drama | Berkeley, CA; Ata Books | 1992 |
| The Test | Fiction | Berkeley, CA; Ata Books | 1991 |
| Writing a Novel | Nonfiction | Berkeley, CA; Ata Books | 1979 |
| Blue Hooks in Weather | Poetry | ||
| Dark Matter | Poetry |
Charles Bukowski, labeled by some as the most outrageous writer in California -- perhaps in the nation -- has also been called one of the two most influential poets in the United States. He was born in Germany and raised in Los Angeles after migrating with his family at the age of three. He spent a significant part of his life as a barfly, drinking and fighting in waterfront dives, and that rough life influenced most of his early writing. He crisscrossed the country during the 1940s and wrote a stream of short stories that led to a stream of rejection slips. He was twenty-four when Story, a prestigious literary magazine, published one of his tales. In the mid-1950s he began to write and develop a readership. When his column, "Notes of a Dirty Old Man", appeared in a Los Angeles alternative newspaper called Open city, his audience expanded considerably. As critic Eric Tomb explains, "Like Simon Rodia, who worked daily for decades fitting pieces of apparent junk onto his Watts Tower, Bukowski has learned how to make a ceremony of self-regard." His more than forty-five books include the inspiration for the movie Barfly, for which he wrote the script. Sample | |||
| All the Assholes in the World and Mine | 1966 | ||
| At Terror Street and Agony Way | 1968 | ||
| Bring Me Your Love | 1983 | ||
| Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame Selected Poems 1955-1973 | Poetry | | 1974 |
| Cold Dogs in the Courtyard | | 1965 | |
| Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts | | 1965 | |
| Crucifix in a Deathhand | | 1965 | |
| The Days run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills | 1969 | ||
| Dangling in the Tournefortia | 1981 | ||
| Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madmess | Fiction | 1972 | |
| Factorum | Fiction | | 1975 |
| Fire Station | Fiction | | 1970 |
| Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail | | 1960 | |
| Ham on Rye | Fiction | | 1982 |
| Hollywood | Fiction | | 1989 |
| Hot Water Music | Fiction | | 1983 |
| It Catches My Heart in Its Hands | | 1963 | |
| The Last Night of the Earth Poems | Poetry | Santa Rosa, CA:Black Sparrow Press | 1992 |
| Longshot Pomes for Broke Players | Poetry | 1962 | |
| Love Is a Dog from Hell: Poems 1974-1977 | Poems | | 1977 |
| Mockingbird Wish Me Luck | | 1972 | |
| The Movie: "Barfly" | Drama | | 191987 |
| Notes of a Dirty Old Man | 1969 | ||
| Play the Piano Drunk/Like a Percussion Instrument/Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit | Fiction | | 1979 |
| Poems Written Before Jumping out of an 8 Story Window | Poems | | 1968 |
| Post Office | Fiction | Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press | 1971 1994 |
| Pulp | Fiction | Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press | 1971 1994 |
| The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems 1946-1966 | Poetry | | 1971 1988 |
| Run with the Hunted | | 1962 | |
| Run with the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader | | 1993 | |
| Screams From the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960-1970 | Fiction | Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press | 1971 1993 |
| Septuagenarian Stew: Stories & Poems | Fiction | | 1990 |
| Shakespeare Never Did This | Fiction | | 1979 |
| South of No North | Fiction | 1973 | |
| There's No Business | 1984 | ||
| You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense | 1986 | ||
| War All the Time: Poems 1981-1984 | Poems | 1984 | |
| Women | 1978 | ||
| Salaam, Huey P. Newton Salaam | Drama |
| America is in the Heart | Non-fiction | 1943 |
| Jacob Peek, Orange Grower | Fiction |
| California Street | Fiction | ||
| The San Franciscans | Fiction | New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc. | 1962 |
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