Selected Books

Anzaldua, Gloria. ed. Making face, making soul, Haciendo caras: creative and critical perspectives by feminists of color. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Foundation Books, 1990. PS509 .F44 M35

The California literary pamphlets. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1936 . Case / Z1008 .B72

Caughey, John and LaRee. California heritage; an anthology of history and literature. Los Angeles: Ward Richie P, 1962. PS571.C2 C35

Caughey, John W. Keepers of the heritage. Berkeley: California Library Association, 1963. Case / PS253 .C3 C3

Crow, Charles, and Kevin Starr. eds. Essays on California Writers. Bowling Green: Bowling Green UP, 1978.

Davidson, Michael. The San Francisco Renaissance: poetics and community at mid-century. NY: Cambridge UP, 1989. PS285 .S3 D38

Dawson, Glen. California authors: a priced book catalogue. Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1962. Z1261 .D36

Egli, Ida R. No rooms of their own: women writers of early California. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1991. PS571 .C2 N64

Everson, William. Archetype west: the Pacific coast as a literary region. Berkeley: Oyez, 1976. PS281 .E9

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, and Nancy J. Peters. Literary San Francisco: a pictorial history from its beginnings to the present day. San Francisco: City Lights Books/Harper & Row, 1980. PS285.S3 F47

Fine, David. ed. Los Angeles in Fiction: A Collection of Essays: From James M. Cain to Walter Mosley. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1995.

Fine, David, and Paul Skenazy. eds. San Francisco in Fiction: Essays in a Regional Literature. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1995.

Gaer, Joseph. Bibliography of California literature; fiction of the gold-rush period, drama of the gold-rush period, poetry of the gold-rush period. NY: B. Franklin 1970. Z1261 .G13

Gudde, Erwin G. California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names. Berkeley: U of California P, 1998.

Haslam, Gerald W. Many Californias: literature from the Golden State. Reno: U of Nevada P, 1992. PS571 .C2 M36

| Top | Heller, Caroline E. Until we are strong together: women writers in the Tenderloin. NY: Teachers College P, 1997. PS153 .H65 H45

Herron, Don, and Nancy J. Peters. eds. The literary world of San Francisco & its environs. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1985. PS144 .S4 H47

Houston, James D., and Gerald W. Haslam. eds. California heartland: writing from the Great Central Valley. Santa Barbara: Capra P, 1978. PS571.C2 C22

Hoyt, Helen. California poets, an anthology of 244 contemporaries. NY: Henry Harrison, 1932. PS571 .C2 C24

Jackson, Joseph H. ed. Continent's end, a collection of California writing. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1944. PS571 .C2 J3

Longtin, Ray C. Three writers of the Far West: a reference guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1980. Z1225 .L65

Maynard, John A. Venice west: the beat generation in Southern California. New Brunswick: Rutgers U P, 1991. PS228 .B6 M39

Michaels, Leonard, David Reid, and Raquel Scherr. eds. West of the West: Imagining California. Berkeley: U of California P, 1995.

Mighels, Ella S. Literary California, poetry, prose and portraits. San Francisco: Harr Wagner, 1918. PS571.C2 M5

| Top | Miller, John. Los Angeles stories: great writers on the city. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1991. PS572 .L6 L6

- - -. San Francisco stories: great writers on the city. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1990. PS572 .S33 S27

Pearsall, Robert B., and Ursula S. Erickson. eds. The Californians; writings of their past and present. 2 vols. San Francisco: Hesperian House, 1961. PS571 C2 P4

Powell, Lawrence C. California classics; the creative literature of the Golden State. Los Angeles: W. Ritchie P 1971. PS571.C2 P66

Rathmell, George. Realms of gold: the colorful writers of San Francisco, 1850-1950. Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Co., 1998. PS285 .S3 R38

Rolfe, Lionel. Literary L.A. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1981. PS285 L7 R6

Sarris, Greg. ed. The Sound of rattles and clappers: a collection of new California Indian writing. Tucson: U of Arizona P, 1994. PS508 .I5 S62x

Smith, Richard C. Utopia and Dissent: Art, Poetry, and Politics in California. Berkeley: U of California P, 1995.

Thompson, Mark A. ImPionable landscapes: the myth of the frontier in twentieth-century California literature. Ann Arbor, MI: U Microfilms International, 1995. PS283 .C2 T46x

Van der Zee, John, and Boyd Jacobson. eds. The Imagined city: San Francisco in the minds of its writers. San Francisco: California Living Books, 1980. PS572.S33 I45

Walker, Franklin D. A literary history of southern California. Berkeley: U of California P, 1950. PS283.C2 W3

- - -. San Francisco's literary frontier. NY: A. A. Knopf, 1943. PS285.S3 W3

Wecter, Dixon. Literary lodestone; one hundred years of California writing. Stanford U P 1950. PS283.C2 W4

Wyatt, David. The fall into Eden: landscape and imagination in California. NY: Cambridge UP, 1986. PS283 .C2 W9

| Top | Selected Articles 

Fine, David. "California: Part of-or West of-the West?" Western American Literature 34.2 (Sumr 1999): 206-11.

- - -. "Running Out of Space: Vanishing Landscapes in California Novels." Western American Literature 26.3 (Nov, 1991): 209-18.

Goldman, Anne E. "Remembering California." Western American Literature 34.2 (Sumr 1999): 155-59.

Gonzalez, John M. "Interpreting California and 'the West.'" Western American Literature 34.2 (Sumr 1999): 186-91.

Graulich, Melody. "Valley Girl." Western American Literature 34.2 (Sumr 1999): 223-27.

Graulich, Melody. "California Dreaming." Western American Literature 34.2 (Sumr 1999): 138-233

Guerena, Salvador. "California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives." Soundings 26 (1995): 29-41.

Haslam, Gerald. "California." Updating the Literary West. Fort Worth: Eds. Max Westbrook and Dan Flores. Texas Christian UP, 1997. 297-312.

Haslam, Gerald and Janice. "Is California Part of the West?" Western American Literature 34.2 (Sumr 1999): 139-46.

Houston, James D. "'The Circle Almost Circled': Some Notes on California's Fiction." Reading the West: New Essays on the Literature of the American West. Ed. Michael Kowalewski. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996. 231-50.

James, George W. "The Influence of California upon Literature." Jack London Journal 1 (1994): 4-25.

Mondragon, Maria. "'The (Safe) White Side of the Line': History and Disguise in John Rollin Ridge's The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta: The Celebrated California Bandit." American Transcendental Quarterly 8.3 (Sep 1994): 173-87.

Nguyen, Viet T. "California, the Pacific Rim, and the Asian American Imagination: Past, Present, and Future." Western American Literature 34.2 (Sumr 1999): 159-65.

Owens, Louis. "Where Things Can Happen: California and Writing." Western American Literature 34.2 (Sumr 1999): 150-55.

Robinson, Forrest G. "The Ungraspable Phantom of California." Western American Literature 34.2 (Sumr 1999): 212-16.

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