page_title: List of people from Oakland, California
section_title: Writers and poets
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Oakland, California / Writers and poets
caption_attribution_description: Maxine Hong Kingston in New York City
context_page_description: This is a list of people from Oakland, California, people born in Oakland or who lived in Oakland for a significant time.
context_section_description: Daniel Alarcón – writer, currently resides in Oakland
  Catherine Asaro – writer
  Chauncey Bailey – journalist assassinated by an agent of Your Black Muslim Bakery
  Delilah L. Beasley – first African-American columnist to be published in a major newspaper
  Charles Borden – writer, sailed around the globe four times
  Anthony Boucher – writer
  Garrett Caples – poet, writer
  Jon Carroll – columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle
  Frank Chin – writer
  Daniel Clowes – comic book writer, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, currently resides in Oakland
  Robert Duncan – poet
  Sarah Webster Fabio – African-American writer, poet, educator; born in Nashville, lived in Oakland 1955-1979
  Robert Harvey – literary theorist, born in Oakland
  Bruce Henderson – author, born in Oakland
  Sidney Howard – Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Academy Award-winning screenwriter
  Daedalus Howell – writer, currently resides in Oakland
  Maxine Hong Kingston – writer, currently resides in Oakland
  Jack London – writer, raised in Oakland, namesake of Jack London Square
  Rod McKuen – poet, composer, singer
  Joaquin Miller – poet, lived in Oakland from 1886–1913
  Jessica Mitford – author
  Jess Mowry – writer
  Ray Nelson – science-fiction writer
  Frank Norris – author, buried in Oakland
  Colleen Patrick-Goudreau – author, speaker, and podcaster
  Ishmael Reed – writer, currently resides in Oakland
  Mary Roach – science writer, currently resides in Oakland
  William Saroyan – dramatist, author, lived in Oakland from 1913-1918
  Jason Shiga – author, cartoonist, puzzle designer
  Emji Spero – writer, poet, performance artist
  Jan Steckel – poet, writer, bisexual activist
  Alex Steffen – writer, born in Oakland
  Gertrude Stein – writer
  Robert Louis Stevenson – writer
  Tina Susman – journalist, Time senior editor, former national editor of BuzzFeed News
  Amy Tan – writer, born in Oakland
  Nellie Wong – poet and activist, born in Oakland
  Shawn Wong – writer, English professor
  Helen Zia – writer, journalist, and activist, currently resides in Oakland
caption: Author Maxine Hong Kingston
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