Category
page 1Novelists from Oregon
Vladimir Nabokov
Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor (1899–1977)
Ursula K. Le Guin
American fantasy and science fiction author (1929–2018)

Frank Herbert
American writer (1920–1986)
Chuck Palahniuk
American novelist, essayist
Ken Kesey
American novelist (1935–2001)

Richard Brautigan
American novelist, poet, and short story writer (1935–1984)

Joe Sacco
Maltese-American cartoonist and journalist; pioneer of the Non-Fiction Graphic Novel (b. 1960)

Beverly Cleary
American writer of children's books (1916–2021)
Damon Knight
American science fiction writer, editor and critic (1922–2002)
Winona LaDuke
author and activist
John Varley
American science fiction author (1947–2025)
Cheryl Strayed
American writer
Kate Wilhelm
American science fiction writer (1928-2018)
Patricia A. McKillip
American fantasy writer (1948–2022)
Peter Craig
American novelist and screenwriter
Craig Thompson
American graphic novelist
Rachel Kushner
writer from the United States (b. 1968)
Kathrine Taylor
American writer (1903–1997)
Lisa Gardner
American author

S. D. Perry
American writer
William P. Young
Canadian Christian author
Karl Marlantes
American businessman and novelist
Jay Lake
science fiction writer (1964–2014)
Dave Wolverton
American speculative fiction writer (1957-2022)
H. L. Davis
American novelist and poet (1894–1960)
Steve Perry
American writer
James Crumley
American writer (1939–2008)
Katherine Dunn
American novelist, journalist, poet (1945–2016)

Ernest Haycox
Novelist, short story writer (1899-1950)

TJ Klune
American writer of queer romantic fiction and fantasy
Chelsea Cain
American journalist and writer
Chang-Rae Lee
American novelist
Patrick Carman
American writer
Phillip Margolin
American writer
Terry Carr
American writer and editor (1937-1987)

Eloise Jarvis McGraw
American writer (1915–2000)
Jon Raymond
American writer
Lidia Yuknavitch
American writer, teacher and editor based in Oregon
Duane Ackerson
American science fiction writer (1942–2020)
Ken Scholes
American writer
Frances Fuller Victor
American historian, poet, novelist, and journalist (1826–1902)
Christopher Coe
American writer
Tom Spanbauer
American writer (1946–2024)
Tucker Reed
Author, blogger, actress
Kyle Mills
American novelist

Walt Curtis
American painter and poet (1941–2023)
David D. Levine
American science fiction writer
Walidah Imarisha
African American writer, activist, educator and spoken word artist
Eva Emery Dye
American writer. First to present Sacagawea as an important historical figure. Women's suffrage advocate.
Bruce Holland Rogers
American writer (born 1958)
Whitney Otto
American novelist
Bonnie Jo Campbell
American novelist and short story writer
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
American writer

David Bischoff
American writer

Marc Acito
American novelist, humorist, screenwriter
David Robbins
American fiction writer, under several names including shared publishing house names (David Lawrence Robbins from Oregon)
Roland Smith
American author
William Kittredge
American writer (1932–2020)
Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur
American scholar of Old Norse and Anglo-Saxon literature, translator, fiction writer
Pete Fromm
novelist, short story writer, memoir writer