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
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