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| D. Hale | O. Hall | D. Hammett | V. D. Hansen | C. G. Hanzlicek |
| B. Harte | A. Haslam | G. Haslam | R. Hass | S. I. Hayakawa |
| P. Hensler | H. Henningson | D. Hilbert | C. Himes | J. Hirshfield |
| J. S. Holliday | G. Hongo | B. Hotchkiss | J.D. Houston | J. W. Houston |
| K. K. Howard | A. Huxley | |
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| Anton and Louisa | Fiction |
| Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder: A Vietnam Memoir (with Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston) | Fiction | New York: Doubleday New American Libary | 1984 1985 |
| Waiting For My Baby | Fiction |
| If He Hollers Let Him Go | Fiction |
| Of Gravity & Angels | Poetry |
| The World Rushed In | Nonfiction |
| Buddha Bandits Down Highway 99 (with Alan Chong Lau and with Lawson Fusao Inada) | Anthology | ||
| River of Heaven | Poetry |
| Fever in the Earth | Poetry | ||
| The Graces of Fire and Other Poems | Poetry |
Author listHis father comes from Oklahoma, his mother from Alabama. They met in west Texas, and he was born in San Francisco. He has spent most of his life on the California coast, exploring this region via his writing. In his novels and nonfiction work he has explored the history and cultures of California, the western U.S. and the Asia/Pacific Region. Of his award-winning Continental Drift, Alan Cheuse said in The New Republic, "Houston has created a fictional state we recognize because we live there. He has given California a national habitation and a name." His works have earned numerous honors, among them a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, a Joseph Henry Jackson Award for fiction, an NEA Writing Grant, The Humanitas Prize, and a 1995 Rockerfeller Foundation residency in Bellagio, Italy. He lives and writes in Santa Cruz, California. "Few writers have as sure a lyrical sense of places and their people as Jim Houston, or as firm a sense of why our place in the scheme of things matters." Jane Hirshfield, author of October Place  Sample | |||
| Between Battles | Fiction | New York; Dial Press | 1968 |
| California Heartland: Writing From the Great Central Valley (with Gerald Haslam) | Anthology | Santa Barbara, CA; Capra Press | 1978 |
| Californians: Searching for the Golden State | Nonfiction | New York; Alfred Knopf Santa Cruz, CA; Otter B Books | 1982 1992 |
| Continental Drift | Fiction | New York; Alfred Knopf Berkeley, CA; University of California Press | 1978 1996 |
| Farewell to Manzanar (with Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston) | Nonfiction | Boston; Houghton Mifflin New York; Bantam Books (in 33 printing) | 1973 1984 |
| Farewell to Manzanar (with Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and John Korty) | Film Writing | NBC World Premiere Movie | 1976 |
| Gasoline: The Automotive Adventures of Charlie Bates | Fiction | Santa Barbara, CA; Capra Press | 1980 |
| Gig | Fiction | New York; Dial Press Berkeley; Creative Arts Book Co. | 1969 1988 |
| The Hawaiian Way: Hawaiian Legacy Series - Cultural Documentary | Film Writing | Honolulu, HI; Asian Pacific Foundation | 1993 |
| LI'A: Hawaiian Legacy Series - Cultural Documentary | Film Writing | Honolulu, HI; Asian Pacific Foundation | 1988 |
| Listen To The Forest: Hawaiian Legacy Series - Cultural Documentary | Film Writing | Honolulu, HI; Asian Pacific Foundation | 1991 |
| In the Ring of Fire: A Pacific Basin Journey | Nonfiction | San Francisco; Mercury House | 1997 |
| The Last Paradise | Fiction | Norman; University of Oklahoma Press | 1998 |
| Love Life | Fiction | New York; Alfred Knopf McGraw-Hill | 1985 1987 |
| The Men in My Life | Nonfiction | Berkeley; Creative Arts Books St. Paul, MO; Graywolf Press | 1987 1994 |
| A Native Son of the Golden West | Fiction | New York; Dial Press Ballantine Books | 1971 1972 |
| Open Field (with John R. Brodie) | Nonfiction | Boston; Houghton Mifflin Bantam Books | 1974 1975 |
| One Can Think About Life After the Fish is in the Canoe, and Other Costal Sketches | Nonfiction | Santa Barbara, CA; Capra Press | 1985 |
| Surfing: A History of the Ancient Hawaiian sport (with Ben Finney) | Nonfiction | San Francisco, CA; Pomegranate Artbooks | 1996 |
| Three Songs for My Father | Nonfiction | Santa Barbara, CA; Capra Press | 1974 |
| West Coast Fiction: Modern Writing from California, Oregon and Washington | Anthology | New York, Bantom Books | 1979 |
| Words, Earth and Aloha: Hawaiian Legacy Series - Cultural Documentary | Film Writing | Honolulu, HI; Asian Pacific Foundation | 1995 |
| Writing From the Inside | Nonfiction | Reading, MS; Addison Welsey Co.Press | 1973 |
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston co-authored the widely praised book and teleplay Farewell to Manzanar, the true story of her family's experience during and after the World War Two internment of Japanese Americans. Now in the 38th printing from Bantam Books, this is a standard work in schools throughout the United States. The NBC teleplay based upon this book received an Emmy Award Nomination and the prestigious Humanitas Prize. Her essays and stories -- some of which were collected in Beyond Manzanar: Views of Asian American Womanhood -- have been widely anthologized. In 1984 she was one of 14 American women honored with the Wonder Woman Award, honoring women over 40 who have made outstanding achievements in the pursuit of truth and positive social change. In 1992 she spent six months in Japan as a U.S.-Japan Cultural Exchange Fellow. In 1995 she held a Rockerfeller Foundation residency at Bellagio, Italy. Born in southern California, she grew up in Santa Clara Valley, and for many years has lived in Santa Cruz. | |||
| Barrio | Drama | NBC: Henry Jaffe Productions | 1978 |
| Beyond Manzanar | Fiction | Santa Barbara, CA; Capra Press | 1985 |
| Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder: A Vietnam Memoir (with Paul Hensler) | Fiction | New York: Doubleday New American Libary | 1984 1985 |
| Farewell to Manzanar (with James D. Houston) | Fiction | San Francisco and Boston | 1973 |
| The Melting Pot (with James D. Houston) | Drama | Paramount Pictures: David Obst | 1980 |
Author list| Passages: An Anthology of Southeast Asian Refugee Experience | Anthology |
| After Many a Summer Dies the Swan | Fiction | ||
| Ape and Essence | Fiction |
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