After the literary maps of the U.S. and U.K., time to revisit a modern classic – the literary map of San Francisco. Concept by John McMurtrie, illustration by artist Ian Huebert.
The complete list of authors:
- Alice Adams (Second Chances – 1988)
- Isabel Allende (Daughter of Fortune – 1999)
- Maya Angelou (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – 1969)
- Gertrude Atherton (The House of Lee – 1940)
- Albert Benard de Russailh (Last Adventure – 1851)
- Ambrose Bierce (The Death of Halpin Frayser – 1891)
- Herb Caen (Herb Caen’s San Francisco – 1957)
- Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – 1968)
- Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – 2000)
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Dog – 1958)
- Allen Ginsberg (Sunflower Sutra – 1956)
- Andrew Sean Greer (The Confessions of Max Tivoli – 2004)
- Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon – 1930)
- Robert Hass (Bookbuying in the Tenderloin – 1967)
- Bob Kaufman (No More Jazz at Alcatraz)
- Maxine Hong Kingston (China Men – 1980)
- Jack Kerouac (On the Road – 1957)
- Gus Lee (China Boy – 1991)
- Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City – 1978)
- Czeslaw Milosz (Visions From San Francisco Bay – 1975)
- Alejandro Murguia (The Medicine of Memory – 2002)
- Frank Norris (McTeague – 1899)
- Thomas Pynchon (The Crying of Lot 49 – 1968)
- Ishmael Reed (Earthquake Blues – 1988)
- William Saroyan (The Living and the Dead – 1936)
- John Steinbeck (Travels with Charley – 1961)
- George Sterling (The Cool, Grey City of Love – 1920)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (Arriving in San Francisco – 1879)
- Amy Tan (The Joy Luck Club – 1989)
- Michelle Tea (Valencia – 2000)
- Hunter S. Thompson (The Great Shark Hunt – 1964)
- Mark Twain (Early Rising, As Regards Excursions to the Cliff House – 1864)
- Sean Wilsley (On the Glory of It All – 2005)
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