Authors
The left and right banks of the Willamette River are knee-deep in Portland authors. Following is a list of twenty fiction and nonfiction writers to get you started in your navigation of the local literary landscape. For a more extensive listing of recommended Portland authors and titles (past and present), pick up a copy of City of Readers: The Book Lover's Guide to Portland in September 2006, published by Tall Grass Press, from your neighborhood library or bookstore.
- Charles D'Ambrosio
- Katherine Dunn
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Craig Lesley
- Tom Spanbauer
Fiction
- Judith Barrington
- Paul Collins
- Larry Colton
- Brian Doyle
- Karen Karbo
Nonfiction
- Michele Glazer
- Paulann Petersen
- Vern Rutsala
- William Stafford
- Primus St. John
Poetry
- Beverly Cleary
- Nancy Coffelt
- Susan Fletcher
- David Gifaldi
- Eric Kimmel
Children's Literature
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Man with his book in the Dead Sea, circa 1910.
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