List of Sacramento writers

Notable writers with ties to Sacramento, California include:

• Ann Bannon, pulp fiction author
• Barbara Bitela, short story award winner and self-published novelist
• Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author
• Marcos Breton, author of books on baseball, winner of Guillermo Martinez-Marquez Award
• Dale Brown, adventure-suspense novelist
• Buck Busfield, playwright
• Timothy Busfield, children's playwright
• Herb Caen, legendary and longtime columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle
• Raymond Carver, short-story master lived in Sacramento, set several works there
• Gregg Coffin, playwright
• John D. Cox, author of general-audience books about weather, storms, meteorology
• Pete Dexter, National Book Award-winning novelist and screenwriter
• Joan Didion, essayist, novelist, and screenwriter
• William Everson, aka Brother Antoninus, poet
• Shaka Ford, science fiction writer
• Eric Hansen, travel writer
• Richard Hellesen, playwright
• Bob Devin Jones, playwright
• Karen Kijewski, mystery novelist
• Joyce Krieg, mystery novelist
• Philip Levine, poet
• Dale Maharidge, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
• Reneau Z. Peurifoy - author of self-help books
• Richard Rodriguez, essayist
• Nicholas Sparks, novelist
• Lincoln Steffens, investigative journalist, muckraker
• Anthony Swofford, novelist and Marine veteran
• Mark Twain, novelist and humorist
• William T. Vollmann - author
• Kenneth Walton, memoirist
• Cornel West, scholar on issues of religion, Marxism, American philosophy, racial matters