Westerners write westerns.
Like Western artists, who were dismissed as illustrators, Western writers often were dubbed regionalists. That's a slap in the face, because from the beginning, Western writers have produced some of America's finest literature. Nev. He was a newspaperman at the Territorial Enterprise, where, like many journalists of the day, he embroidered his reporting until it was more fiction than fact. Edited by Jack Hicks, James D. Houston, Maxine Hong Kingston and Al Young, this anthology begins with the tales of California's Native Americans. Then comes the work of the California literati.