Learn something new about where you live

I live in the Sacramento area, and most weeks take moments to really look around and discover the destination that is right under my nose. I am finishing a great historical fiction "Rhett Butler's People", a sequel to "Gone with the Wind" authorized by the Margaret Mitchell estate. The book by Donald McCaig set around the Civil War and who can miss that it is Rhett's side of the story "Gone with the Wind" Reading this book has made me wish to see the South and to learn more about the area today and visit some of the spots the book took place in. Autho of Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchel lived in Atlanta and used her first hand knowledge to write this book.

Today I don't have plans to visit the South. I'll definatly add it to my bucket list of places I want to visit. Next I started to wonder if there are books that might take place here in Sacramento.

Notable writers with ties to Sacramento, California include:

Ann Bannon, pulp fiction author
Barbara Bitela, short story award winner and self-published novelist

Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author

Marcos Breton, author of books on baseball, winner of Guillermo Martinez-Marquez Award

Dale Brown, adventure-suspense novelist

Buck Busfield, playwright

Timothy Busfield, children's playwright

Herb Caen, legendary and longtime columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle

Raymond Carver, short-story master lived in Sacramento, set several works there
Gregg Coffin, playwright
John D. Cox, author of general-audience books about weather, storms, meteorology
Pete Dexter, National Book Award-winning novelist and screenwriter
Joan Didion, essayist, novelist, and screenwriter

William Everson, aka Brother Antoninus, poet

Shaka Ford, science fiction writer

Eric Hansen, travel writer

Richard Hellesen, playwright

Bob Devin Jones, playwright

Karen Kijewski, mystery novelist

Joyce Krieg, mystery novelist

Philip Levine, poet
Dale Maharidge, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Reneau Z. Peurifoy - author of self-help books
Richard Rodriguez, essayist
Nicholas Sparks, novelist

Lincoln Steffens, investigative journalist, muckraker

Anthony Swofford, novelist and Marine veteran

Mark Twain, novelist and humorist

William T. Vollmann - author

Kenneth Walton, memoirist
Cornel West, scholar on issues of religion, Marxism, American philosophy, racial matters

So now I want to read something from a few of these authors to learn more about my area and the possibilities. For more information on local writers http://www.cwcsacramentowriters.org/