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GERALD W. HASLAM

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Books In Print: Nonfiction
	Leon Patterson, A California Story Winner of: Honorable Mention, Eric Hoffer Award 2016 Devil Mountain Books, Box 4115, Walnut Creek, CA 94596, 1990; Second Edition, 2000. e-book available For more information on this book, Click here
	In Thought and Acton: The Enigmatic Life of S. I. Hayakawa Winner of: Award of Merit from American Association of State and Local History Winner of: The Institute of General Semantics' S.I. Hawakawa Prize University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE 68588-0630, 2011. e-book available · For more information on this book, Click here
	Workin' Man Blues: Country Music in California, 3nd edition Winner of: the Rolling Stone Magazine Ralph J. Gleason Award. Winner of: the Certificate of Commendation (American Association for State and Local History) University of California Press, Berkeley, CA 94709, 2012. For more information on this book, Click here
	The Great Central Valley: California's Heartland Winner of: the Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award for Nonfiction Winner of: the Commonwealth Club Medal for Californiana Winner of: an Award of Merit from the Association of State and Local History, as well as other honors for photography and design. See a complete list of reviews and awards at: Awards Published by: University of California Press, Berkeley, CA 94720, 1993. Can be purchased from: Stephen Johnson Photography This book is an extended essay on place illustrated by photographers Steven Johnson and Robert Dawson.
	Coming of Age in California *Winner of: The second edition of these personal essays was named to the San Francisco Chronicle's* readers' list of the twentieth-century's top 100 best non-fiction books from the West. Devil Mountain Books, Box 4115, Walnut Creek, CA 94596, 1990; Second Edition, 2000. e-book available** Read an essay from this book! "Bloodrites," For more information on this book, Click Here!
	The Other California: The Great Central Valley in Life and Letters Capra Press, 1990; second edition, University of Nevada Press, Mail Stop 166, Reno, NV 89557-0076, 1993; Reissued in a second, enlarged edition in 1994. Eighteen essays and articles originally published in periodicals.

Books In Print: Fiction
	Grace Period Winner of: Eric Hoffer Award 2016 University of Nevada Press, Mail Stop 166, Reno, NV 89557-0076, 2006. e-book available Read an EXCERPT Read a SYNOPSIS For more information on this book, Click Here!
	Haslam's Valley Winner of: 2006 Josephine Miles National Literary Award Devil Mountain Books, Box 4115, Walnut Creek, CA 94596, 1995; E-book available A career-summarizing collection of fiction and non-fiction. Read a short story from this book: What Horton Hatched For more information on this book, Click Here!
	Straight White Male Winner of: Western States Book Award for 2001 and was named runner-up for Book of the Year by Foreword magazine University of Nevada Press, Mail Stop 166, Reno, NV 89557-0076, 2000; For more information on this book, Click Here!
	Manuel and the Madman Thwack! Pow! Productions, Box 984, Penngrove, CA 94951, 2000; with Janice Haslam Half-Anglo, half-Chicano, Manuel Ryan survives seventh grade. A humorous novel about and for teens. For more information on this book, Click here
	Condor Dreams and Other Fictions University of Nevada Press, Mail Stop 166, Reno, NV 89557-0076, 1994. In this collection of twenty-five short stories of varied subjects and styles, Gerald Haslam explores the rural areas and small towns of his native region - California's Great Central Valley.
	The Great Tejon Club Jubilee Devil Mountain Books, Box 4115, Walnut Creek, CA 94596, 1995. e-book available The redoubtable Tejon Club Gang stumbles into one beer-fueled misadventure after another in these 14 related stories. Read a story from this book! "The Great X-mas Controversy"
	That Constant Coyote: California Stories Winner of 1990 Josephine Miles National Literary Award University of Nevada Press, Mail Stop 166, Reno, NV 89557-0076, 1990. This book collects a variety of stories dealing with rural and small-town folks in California. Still going strong after three printings.

ANTHOLOGIES
	Many Californias: Literature from the Golden State Winner of: 1993 Benjamin Franklin Award Second edition, University of Nevada Press, Mail Stop 166, Reno, NV 89557-0076, 1999. This edition adds the work of Robert Hass, Gina Berriault, Molly Giles, Mas Masumoto, Carolyn See, Ross MacDonald, Oakley Hall, Victor Martinez, Al Young, and Chitra Divakaruni, as well as new selections by William Saroyan, Hisaye Yamamoto, Jack London, and Wallace Stegner. For more information on this book, Click here
	Jack London's Golden State: Selected California Writing Amazon A sampler of London's varied writing about his native state, with a biographical essay and individual introductions to each piece. Publisher: Heyday Books.
	Where Coyotes Howl and Wind Blows Free: Growing Up in the West ( with Alexandra R. Haslam ) University of Nevada Press, Mail Stop 166, Reno, NV 89557-0076, 1995. This multi-regional, multi-cultural collection of stories and essays for younger readers plays against the Western stereotype. Includes authors such as Stegner, Hong Kingston, Brautigan, McFadden, Soto and Mowry.

BOOKLETS, MONOGRAPHS AND REPRINTS
	The Horned Toad Adapted and illustrated by Garth Haslam Thwack! Pow! Productions, Box 984, Penngrove, CA 94951, 1994. Gerry's most anthologized short story presented in comic-book form for beginning readers.
	Lawrence Clark Powell Boise State University Western Writers' Series, 1991; ISBN: 0-88430-101-X A 52-page survey of the life and career of one of the West's preeminent men of letters. To purchase: Lawrence Clark Powell publication #102
	Jack Schaefer Boise State University Western Writers' Series, 1975; ISBN: 0-88430-019-6. A 46-page survey of the life and career of one of the West�s preeminent men of letters. To purchase: Jack Schaefer publication #20

FILMS
Rider Co-script writer of a 22-minute movie produced by Randy Lippert and directed by Jim Weiner for Spotswood Productions, 1992. Based on Gerry's short story "Rider." Read this essay. "Rider"
The Miyazaki Family: Missing in Action Winner: film based on it was 1995 Golden Eagle Award from CINE. Script Consultant of a 22-minute film produced and directed by Michael Litle for Abitare Film Group, Inc., 1995. Film is based on Gerry's short story "Missing in Action."

EARLIER PUBLICATIONS
FICTION
*The Man Who Cultivated Fire and Other Stories* Capra Press, 1987	*Snapshots: Glimpses of the Other California* Devil Mountain Books, P.O. Box 4115, Walnut Creek, CA 94596, 1985. e-book available ·	*Hawk Flights: Visions of the West* Seven Buffaloes Press, l983
*The Wages of Sin: Collected Stories* Duck Down Press/Windriver Books, l980	*Masks: A Novel* Old Adobe Press, l976	*Okies: Selected Stories* Honorable Mention Joseph Henry Jackson Award. 1973 lst edition, 1973, New West Publications; 2nd edition, l974; 3rd edition, Peregrine-Smith, 1975

NONFICTION
*Voices of a Place: Social and Literary Essays from the Other California* E-book available Read a story from this book. "Rider" Devil Mountain Books, Box 4115, Walnut Creek, CA 94596, 1987. *The Language of the Oil Fields* Old Adobe Press, 1972 ANTHOLOGIES *California Heartland: Writing from the Great Central Valley* Co-written with James D. Houston; Capra Press, 1978 *Afro-American Oral Literature* Harper & Row, l974 *Western Writing* University of New Mexico Press, l974 *Forgotten Pages of American Literature* Houghton-Mifflin, l970 BOOKLETS, MONOGRAPHS, & REPRINTS *Out of the Slush Pile and Into Print* Co-written with Perry Glasser; Poets & Writers, Inc., l993 *Baiting the Hook* Poets & Writers, Inc., 1990 *The Great Central Valley : Voices of a Place* Author: Gerald W Haslam; Stephen Johnson; Robert Dawson; Pacific Discovery Magazine. Publisher: San Francisco : California Academy of Sciences,©1986. This exhibit led to the Great Central Valley book. *William Eastlake* Steck-Vaughn Southwest Writers' Series, 1970