Virginia Adair
("Ants on the Melon," "Beliefs & Blasphemies") taught for 22 years at Cal Poly.
Louis Adamic
("Dynamite: A Century of Class Violence in America 1830-1930") lived in the pilot house in San Pedro.
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Highlights Of Literary L.a.
An Incomplete Guide to Literary L.A.
Frank Baum
Creator of the "Oz" books lived in Ozcot, his estate on the corner of Franklin and Cherokee avenues.
A. Scott Berg
Author of "Maxwell Perkins," "Goldwyn" and "Lindbergh" lives in Beverly Hills.
Beyond Baroque
One of the city's oldest literary establishments, is located in Venice.
Arna Bontemps
("Any Place But Here") wrote about Watts, which she called "Mudtown."
T.C. Boyle
("The Tortilla Curtain," "Riven Rock") teaches at USC.
Ray Bradbury
Wrote the "The Martian Chronicles" in the basement of the library at UCLA.
Leo Braudy
("The Frenzy of Renown") teaches at USC
Kate Braverman
Is the author among other works, of "Lithium for Medea" and "Small Craft Warnings."
Bertolt Brecht
Lived in Santa Monica.
Charles Bukowski
("Love is a Dog from Hell" and " Notes from a Dirty Old Man") lived in San Pedro.
Eve Bunting
Author of more than 100 children's books lives in Pasadena.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
("Tarzan") built his estate in what is today the city of Tarzana.
Octavia E. Butler
("Parable of the Talents" and "Parable of the Sower") lived in Altadena.
James M. Cain
("The Postman Always Rings Twice" lived in the Hollywood Hills.
Bebe Moore Campbell
("Singing in the Comeback Choir") lives in Los Angeles.
Raymond Chandler
Phillip Marlowe kept an office on La Cienega Boulevard.
Chasen's
Became famous for hosting L.A.'s version of the Algonquin Roundtable.
Wanda Coleman
Poet and author of "Mambo Hips & Make Believe," lives in Los Angeles.
Jackie Collins
Chronicled a new breed of American family in "Hollywood Wives," "Hollywood Husbands" and "Hollywood Kids."
Michael Connelly
Named his most recent novel for the scene of its crime -- Angels Flight.
Bernard Cooper
("Maps to Anywhere" and "Truth Serum") lives in West Hollywood.
Stephen Cooper
("Full of Life: A Biography of John Fante") teaches at Cal State LB.
Miles Corwin
("The Killing Season" and "And still We Rise") is a Times reporter.
Robert Craig
("LA Requiem") lives in Los Angeles.
Michael Crichton
("Jurassic Park") lived in Santa Monica.
Richard Henry Dana
Describes land fall in Southern California in "Two Years Before the Mast."
Sara Davidson
("Loose Change" and "Cowboy: A Love Story") lives in Santa Monica.
Mike Davis
("City of Quartz," "Ecology of Fear" and Magical Urbanism") chronicles the travails of his megalopolis from his home in Pasadena.
Fred Dewey
Is direct of Beyond Baroque.
Jared Diamond
("Guns, Germs, and Steel") is a professor of physiology at UCLA.
Joan Didion
Made the Santa Monica Freeway the setting of her novel, "Play It As It Lays."
Digby Diehl
Hosts the annual Imitation Hemingway Contest at Harry's Bar.
Harriet Doerr
("Stones for Ibarra") grew up and still lives in Pasadena.
John Gregory Dunne
Took on L.A.'s Catholic archdiocese in "True Confessions."
Bret Easton Ellis
In "Less Than Zero," wrote that everyone in L.A. was afraid to merge.
James Ellroy's
("L.A. Confidential") mother was found murdered near Arroyo High School in El Monte.
Steve Erickson
Buried Los Angeles' freeways in sand in "Days Between Stations."
Susan Faludi
("Backlash" and "Stiffed") lives in the Hollywood Hills.
John Fante
("Ask the Dust") lived on Bunker Hill.
William Faulkner
Came to Hollywood to write screenplays and left soon thereafter.
Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger
Lived in Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades.
M.F.K. Fisher
("The Art of Eating") lived at the corner of Painter and Philadelphia avenues in Whittier.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wrote "The Crack-Up" in Los Angeles and died here before he completed it.
David Freeman
("One of Us") is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles.
Judith Freeman's
heroine in "The Chinchilla Farm" landed in MacArthur Park after coming to Los Angeles from Utah.
Cristina Garcia
("Dreaming in Cuban") lives in Pacific Palisades.
Garden of Allah
A favorite pied-a-terre for a number of visiting writers, including Robert Benchley, Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett.
Earle Stanley Gardner
(Perry Mason mysteries) lived in the Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel.
Elizabeth George
("In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner") lives in Orange County.
Amy Gerstler
("Crown of Weeds," "Bitter Angel" and "Medicine") lives in L.A., recites frequently at Beyond Baroque.
The Getty Center
Host numerous poetry readings and dramatic presentations.
Charlotte Gilman
("The Yellow Wall Paper," 1891) wrote from her home in Pasadena.
Sue Grafton
Lives in Santa Barbara, which is the model for the town Saint Teresa, home of her sleuth, Kinsey Millhone.
Zane Gray
("Riders of the Sage") lived in Altadena and kept a home in Avalon when the marlin were running.
Andrea Grossman
Runs the Writers Bloc literary series.
Chester B. Himes
Set "If He Hollers Let Him Go" in a Southern California shipyard during World War II.
David Horowitz
Is the author of "Radical Son" and "The Politics of Bad Faith."
Arianna Huffington
("How To Overthrow the Government") lives in Brentwood.
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