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The following are authors, filmmakers, musicians, and other performers, and their products, associated with Oregon.
[edit] Literature
[edit] Authors
- Children's author Beverly Cleary set many of her stories in Portland, and used many references to the city in them. Henry Huggins, for instance, lived on Klickitat Street, while Ramona Quimby was named for Quimby Street.[1]
- David James Duncan, author of The River Why (set in rural Oregon), grew up in Portland.
- Katherine Dunn came to Portland to attend Reed College and lives there still. Her novel Geek Love is partially set in Portland.[2]
- Ursula K. Le Guin, Grand Master author of speculative fiction, has lived in Portland since 1958. The Lathe of Heaven, one of her most renowned novels, is set in a future Portland.
- Author Jean Auel currently lives in Portland with her husband. She attended both Portland State University and the University of Portland.[3]
- Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk wrote an alternative travelogue of the city titled Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon.[4]
- Author Steve Perry writer of a number of movie adaptations, Batman cartoons, Conan novels, a couple Star Wars novels, a wonderful series called 'The Man Who Never Missed' and numerous other projects and short stories. He enjoys teasing his editors by leaving situation references in his books from other works he has written. Scattered through a number of his works are the names from Portland and other locations throughout the Pacific Northwest.
- Author Ken Kesey, wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which takes place in an Oregon asylum.
- The Bridge of the Gods: A Romance of Indian Oregon by Frederick Homer Balch, published in 1890, is the earliest novel set in Oregon.
- The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western, by Richard Brautigan
- Honey in the Horn by H. L. Davis -- this sardonic look at pioneer life in rural Oregon won the Pulitzer prize.
- Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey -- the story of a family of "gyppo" (or contract) loggers.
- Trask by Don Berry -- Elbridge Trask, former mountain man, is the first to farm the grasslands along the Tillamook Bay
- Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller – a semi-autobiographical book by a Portland author, concerning Christianity and "…[drawing] heavily on Portland's deep pool of oddballs"[5]
- Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon nonfiction by Chuck Palahniuk
- Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
- Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
- Ramona Quimby, Age 8 and other children's books by Beverly Cleary
- The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin – a novel set in Portland.[6]
- Paranoid Park by Blake Nelson
- Dies the Fire and sequels by S. M. Stirling – science fiction novels set in the Willamette Valley and other parts of the Pacific Northwest[7]
- Violence of Action by Richard Marcinko
- Winterkill by Craig Lesley
- The Postman by David Brin - largely in the Willamette Valley, with a notable scene in the University of Oregon fishbowl.
- Most Likely To Die Various authors. (Calaboration) 2/3 of book set in Portland, OR.
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[edit] References
- ^ Beverly Cleary, Age 90 (2006 Newsweek Interview)
- ^ article in Willamette Week
- ^ article from LiteraryArts.org
- ^ JOHN MARSHALL. "Palahniuk paints a lovingly twisted picture of the not-so-rosy Portland", SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, July 18, 2003. Retrieved on 2007-06-21.
- ^ Dundas, Zach. "Confessions of a dangerous mind", Willamette Week, February 2nd, 2005. Retrieved on 2007-06-21.
- ^ Smith, Anderson. Lathe of Heaven (Synopsis). Science Fiction Museum.
- ^ Paul Di Filippo. Dies the Fire (review). SciFi.com/Off the Shelf.
- ^ DAVID WALKER. "The camera man: how Gus Van Sant made Portland cool", Willamette Week, March 9th, 2005. Retrieved on 2007-06-21.
- ^ AARON MESH. "Toon town", Willamette Week, June 20th, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-06-21.
- ^ Anderson, Jennifer. "Theaters to nab ‘The Hunted’ in February", Portland Tribune, November 19, 2002. Retrieved on 2007-06-27.
- ^ Hamilton, Don. "Matt Groening's Portland", Portland Tribune, 2002-07-19. Retrieved on 2007-04-28.
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