List of fiction set in Oregon

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The following are authors, filmmakers, musicians, and other performers, and their products, associated with Oregon.

Contents 1 Literature 1.1 Authors 1.1.1 Other books 2 Musical 3 Film 3.1 Filmmakers 3.2 Films 4 Television 5 Video games 6 See also 7 References 8 External links

[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]
• 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.^[2]
• Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk wrote an alternative travelogue of the city titled Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon.^[3]
• Author Steve Perry writer of a number of movie adaptations, Batman cartoons, Conan novels, Star Wars novels, and a 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.

[edit] Other books

• The Ancient One by T. A. Barron – set in fictional southwestern Oregon town of "Blade"
• Blue Like Jazz by Don Miller – a semi-autobiographical book by a Portland author, concerning Christianity and "…[drawing] heavily on Portland's deep pool of oddballs"^[4]
• The Bridge of the Gods: A Romance of Indian Oregon by Frederick Homer Balch – published in 1890, is the earliest novel set in Oregon^{[citation needed]}
• Doomsday Plus Twelve by James D. Forman
• The Emberverse series by S. M. Stirling
• Geek Love by Katherine Dunn, who also lives in Portland ^[5]
• Gone, But Not Forgotten by Phillip Margolin
• 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
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, set in an Oregon insane asylum
• Our Lady of the Forest by David Guterson
• Paranoid Park by Blake Nelson
• The Postman by David Brin – set largely in the Willamette Valley, with a notable scene in the University of Oregon's Erb Memorial Union "fishbowl"^{[citation needed]}
• The Shack by William P. Young
• Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey, about loggers of Oregon's coastal forests
• The River Why by David James Duncan
• The Torn Skirt by Rebecca Godfrey
• Trask by Don Berry – Elbridge Trask, former mountain man, is the first to farm the grasslands along Tillamook Bay
• Tucket's Home by Gary Paulsen
• Violence of Action by Richard Marcinko
• Winterkill by Craig Lesley

[edit] Musical

• Shanghaied in Astoria (Musical) by the Astor Street Opry Company

[edit] Film

[edit] Filmmakers

• Se7en and Zodiac director David Fincher graduated from Ashland High School.
• Director Brad Bird graduated from Corvallis High School.
• Director Todd Haynes lives in Oregon.
• Director Gus Van Sant has achieved commercial and critical acclaim for his films, including My Own Private Idaho, Drugstore Cowboy, Good Will Hunting (which earned Van Sant a best director Oscar nomination) and Elephant (which won the Palme d'Or and a best director award at the Cannes Film Festival).^[6]
• Will Vinton Studios, a famous producer of animated films (especially clay animation); noted for the feature film Return to Oz, the California Raisins television commercials of the 1980s, Eddie Murphy's television show The PJs.^[7]

[edit] Films

[edit] Television

• Matt Groening, who graduated from Portland's Lincoln High School, is responsible for creating two of the most popular animated television series of the last two decades, The Simpsons and Futurama. Many of the character names in The Simpsons are taken from street names in Portland (Flanders, Rev. Lovejoy, etc.)^[8]
• Nowhere Man - filmed largely in and around Portland, Oregon
• The situation comedy Hello Larry was set in Portland.
• The O.C.'s season 2 premiere is partly set in Portland ; Seth was there all summer.
• LOST had an episode named Not in Portland, and the main villain Benjamin Linus was born in a forest just outside of Portland.
• Under Suspicion, crime drama starring Karen Sillas, lasted one season.

[edit] Video games

• The Oregon Trail

[edit] See also

• Music of Oregon
• List of artists and art institutions in Portland, Oregon
• List of lists about Oregon

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• "Reading Portland: The City in Prose", The Portland Mercury