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Whether you’re a published author or “just always wanted to write,” there’s a place for you in California Writers Club! Our 22 branches range from Mendocino to Orange County and include writers of all levels and interests.
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Welcome to MWA NorCal - Mystery Writers of America NorCal Chapter. We are one of eleven regional chapters of the Mystery Writers of America, the country’s oldest organization of professional mystery writers.
Feb 28, 2017 · Isabel Allende. After meeting her current husband in the late 1980s, Isabel Allende relocated to northern California. Her novels award-winning novels—including House of the Spirits and Daughter of Fortune—blend myth with reality, and are often inspired by her own experiences. Beyond writing, Allende is perhaps most famous for being the ...
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Writers of Northern California: With Joan Merrill, Diane Johnson, Peter S. Beagle, Jessamyn West.
- Anne Lamott
- Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
- John Muir
- Joaquin Miller
Anne Lamotte is a well-loved American novelist and fiction-writer hailing from Marin County. Her largely autobiographical nonfiction tackles some of the struggles she has endured in her life like alcoholism, being a single mom, living with depression and her faith. She is a popular public speaker and writing teacher as well having taught at UC Davi...
American novelist Ursula K. Le Guin passed away in 2018, but her writing career spanned nearly sixty years. Le Guin was the daughter of University of California, Berkeley anthropologist Alfred Kroeber who famously cared for Ishi, presumed to be the last of the Yahi people, when he emerged from the wilderness in 1911. Le Guin’s mother Theodora autho...
John Muir’s essays, letters and books, especially on the Sierra Nevadas, have been read by millions across the world. He was also a naturalist, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist and early advocate for preserving wilderness. Born in Scotland in 1838, Muir found his way to California where he became co-founder of the Sierra...
Cincinnatus Heine Miller used the pen name Joaquin Miller and is often called “The Poet of the Sierras” after writing Songs of the Sierras. Not a native Californian, his family found their way from Indiana first to Oregon’s Willamette Valley, then to Northern California where he spent a year living with Native Americans. He was wounded in the cheek...
Writers of Northern California (TV Series 1978–1991) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Oct 2, 2022 · Chip O'Brien October 2, 2022. 6. Hunter S. Thompson began his literary journey in San Francisco. When you think of famous people associated with Northern California, movie stars and sports heroes are more likely to come to mind than literary titans. Yet, perhaps less famously, NorCal has been a fertile ground for some of the world’s great writers.
