New Orleans in fiction

The city of New Orleans, Louisiana is part of a number of fictional works. A very incomplete version of the list includes:

Books

• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• Blues and Trouble: Twelve Stories by Tom Piazza (first short story "Brownsville" is set in New Orleans)
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• Dinner at Antoine's by Francis Parkinson Keyes
• The Grandissimes by George Washington Cable
• Manon Lescaut by Antoine François Prévost (features the early French colony at New Orleans at one point in the book)
• Mosquitoes and Pylon by William Faulkner (the latter novel takes place in "New Valois," a thinly disguised New Orleans)
• The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
• The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice
• Lives of the Mayfair Witches by Anne Rice
• Paul Marchand, F.M.C. by Charles Chesnutt
• Junky by William Burroughs
• Violets and Other Tales and The Goodness of Saint Rocque and Other Stories by Alice Dunbar-Nelson
• Monsieur Motte by Grace King
• Clarimonde by Napier Bartlett (features a Creole tale and a description of New Orleans during the American Civil War)
• Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (Chapter XLI: "The Metropolis of the South")
• New Orleans, Mon Amour by Andrei Codrescu

Authors who have repeatedly or frequently used New Orleans as a setting for their fiction include Poppy Z. Brite, Truman Capote, Nancy A. Collins, Anne Rice, and Tennessee Williams.

Comic Books

In the DC Comics fictional universe, New Orleans has been given a neighbouring city, St. Roch, Louisiana, serving as an occasional home to the original Hawkman and Hawkgirl.

Film

• A Streetcar Named Desire
• All Dogs Go to Heaven
• The Big Easy
• Cat People
• The Cincinnati Kid
• Double Jeopardy
• Father Hood
• Interview with the Vampire
• Live and Let Die
• Miller's Crossing—the location of the city where the fictional events take place is never specified, but the scenes were filmed in New Orleans.
• The Pelican Brief
• Runaway Jury
• The Wacky World of Dr. Morgus

Television

Star Trek

• Star Trek:Deep Space Nine character Benjamin Sisko is a native of New Orleans. His father Joseph Sisko is also a native of New Orleans, and has a restaurant near Jackson Square in 2371. The family restaurant is seen in the episodes "Homefront," "Tears Of The Prophets," "Image In The Sand," and "Shadows And Symbols."
• The New Orleans class starship is named for the city.

The Simpsons

• New Orleans is the setting of the Simpsons spinoff, "Chief Wiggum P.I.," starring Chief Wiggum.
• New Orleans is also the setting for "Oh! Streetcar!," a musical version of A Streetcar Named Desire.

The X-Files

The X-Files character Monica Reyes worked for the FBI in New Orleans before becoming John Doggett's partner.

Other television references

Several episodes of television series have referenced the city:

• The short-lived 1997 CBS series Orleans was set in New Orleans.
• Season 9 (2000) of The Real World was set in New Orleans.
• In a 2001 episode of Seven Days, Parker goes to New Orleans to prove that his friend, who is scheduled to be executed, is innocent.
• In a 2003 episode of The Drew Carey Show, Drew and his buddies set off on a road trip to New Orleans to find a girl he met after placing an ad on a beer bottle.
• In a 2004 episode of Las Vegas called "New Orleans", Danny, Ed and Sam head to New Orleans in search of a big gambler who owes the casino money.
• In a 2005 episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, the detectives pursue a child molester who kidnapped three young sisters from New Orleans after their parents were killed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
• Frank's Place

Theater

• A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams is famously set in the city of New Orleans and the city itself plays a major role in the play.

See also

• New Orleans Square