page_title: Herb Caen
section_title: Bibliography
hierarchical_section_title: Herb Caen / Bibliography
caption_attribution_description: English: "Loyal Royal," typewriter of Herb Caen, longstanding columnist of the San Francisco Chronicle, on display in the lobby of the Chronicle Building on 5th Street in San Francisco, CA
context_page_description: Herb Caen was a San Francisco humorist and journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, painful puns, and offbeat anecdotes—"a continuous love letter to San Francisco"—appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle for almost sixty years and made him a household name throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
  "The secret of Caen's success", wrote the editor of a rival publication, was:
  his outstanding ability to take a wisp of fog, a chance phrase overheard in an elevator, a happy child on a cable car, a deb in a tizzy over a social reversal, a family in distress and give each circumstance the magic touch that makes a reader an understanding eyewitness of the day's happenings.
  A special Pulitzer Prize called him the "voice and conscience" of San Francisco.
context_section_description: The San Francisco Book, Photographs by Max Yavno, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston/The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1948.
  Baghdad by the Bay, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1949.
  Baghdad:  1951, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, N.Y., 1950.
  Don't Call It Frisco, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1953.
  Herb Caen's Guide to San Francisco, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1957.
  Only in San Francisco, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, N.Y., 1960.
  San Francisco: City on Golden Hills, illustrated by Dong Kingman, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1967.
  The Cable Car and the Dragon, illustrated by Barbara Ninde Byfield. Doubleday (1972), reprinted by Chronicle Books (1986) (children's picture book)
  Above San Francisco, with Robert Cameron. Aerial photographs of historic and contemporary San Francisco, with text by Caen. (1986)
caption: One of Caen's four "Loyal Royals" on display at the Chronicle offices
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