List of fiction set in Pittsburgh


List of fiction set in Pittsburgh


This is a list of fiction set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Books

  • Afterimage by Kathleen George
  • All in Good Time by Carolyn Astfalk
  • An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
  • American Rust by Philipp Meyer
  • Another Kind of Monday by William Coles
  • The Autobiography of My Body by David Guy
  • Blood on the Forge by William Attaway
  • The Book of Jonas by Stephen Dau
  • Burning Valley by Philip Bonosky
  • Captains and Kings by Taylor Caldwell
  • Christine by Stephen King
  • Disquiet Heart by Randall Silvis
  • Duffy's Rocks by Edward Fenton
  • East Pittsburgh Downlow by Dave Newman
  • Elfhome (series) by Wen Spencer
  • Emily, Alone by Stewart O'Nan
  • Fallen by Kathleen George
  • Greenhorn on the Frontier by Ann Finlayson
  • Ghosts of the Golden Triangle by Mord McGhee
  • The Homewood Books by John Edgar Wideman
  • Iron City by Lloyd L. Brown
  • Ironblood (novel) by Mord McGhee
  • The King's Orchard by Agnes Sligh Turnbull (1963)
  • The Last Chicken in America by Ellen Litman
  • The Leap Year Boy by Marc Simon (2013)
  • Lethal Legacy by Gerald Myers
  • A Little Girl in Old Pittsburg
  • Looking For The General by Warren Miller
  • The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes by K.C. Constantine
  • The Memory Keeper's Daughter
  • A Model World and Other Stories by Michael Chabon
  • Monongahela Dusk by John Hoerr
  • The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
  • Ornamental Graces by Carolyn Astfalk
  • Out of This Furnace by Thomas Bell
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
  • Remember the End by Agnes Sligh Turnbull (1938)
  • Riot by William Trautmann
  • Seducing Mr. Darcy by Gwyn Cready (2008)
  • Sent for You Yesterday by John Edgar Wideman
  • Settling Accounts: Drive to the East
  • She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick
  • Taken by Kathleen George
  • The Tempering by Gloria Skurzynski
  • Three Golden Rivers by Olive Price
  • The Two Georges
  • U.S.A. by John dos Passos
  • Ukiah Oregon (series)
  • Watch Your Mouth by Daniel Handler
  • Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon

Comic books

  • Firestorm the Nuclear Man
  • The Pitt
  • Star Brand

Film

Plays

  • The Pittsburgh Cycle - In 2005, August Wilson completed a ten-play cycle, nine of which are set in Pittsburgh, chronicling the African-American experience in the 20th century. These are:
  • 1900s - Gem of the Ocean (2003)
  • 1910s - Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1984)
  • 1920s - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1982) - set in Chicago
  • 1930s - The Piano Lesson (1986) - Pulitzer Prize
  • 1940s - Seven Guitars (1995)
  • 1950s - Fences (1985) - Pulitzer Prize
  • 1960s - Two Trains Running (1990)
  • 1970s - Jitney (1982)
  • 1980s - King Hedley II (2001)
  • 1990s - Radio Golf (2005)

Television shows

Movies

Music

  • "America", written by Paul Simon and performed by Simon & Garfunkel, includes the line "Kathy", I said, / As we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh, / Michigan seems like a dream to me now."
  • "Duquesne Whistle," which appears on the Bob Dylan album Tempest, was co-written by Dylan and Robert Hunter. The song describes a train ride through Pittsburgh. NPR's Ann Powers speculates that this may be the same train described in Dylan's "Lo and Behold".
  • "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Bruce Springsteen describes "It's cloudy out in Pittsburgh / It's raining in Saigon / Snow's falling across the Michigan line."
  • "I'm Not Dead (I'm in Pittsburgh)", which appears on the Frank Black album Fast Man Raider Man, was co-written by Black and Pittsburgher Reid Paley. It draws upon Pittsburgh's historical connection with the zombie genre.
"I finally found a place to call my own / a place where all good sinners can get stoned / I'll keep my holy vision, you keep your stupid pride / You said I couldn't make it on my own / But I'm not dead (I'm in Pittsburgh) / And now I can't get out of town / But I'm not dead (I'm in Pittsburgh) / They've got me all strung, come cut me down."
  • "Life During Wartime," which appears on Talking Heads' Fear of Music and Stop Making Sense, asks the listener in a post-apocalyptic landscape, "Heard about Houston? Heard about Detroit? Heard about Pittsburgh, PA?" Long-time Talking Heads drummer Chris Frantz grew up in Pittsburgh.
  • "Lo and Behold," which appears on The Basement Tapes by Bob Dylan and the Band, tells the story of the narrator recounting a train ride with "I come into Pittsburgh / At six-thirty flat / I found myself a vacant seat / An' I put down my hat."
  • "Sweet Little Sixteen", by Chuck Berry, rhymes "Pittsburgh, P.A." with "Frisco Bay."
  • "Six Days on the Road", written by Earl Green and Carl Montgomery, describes a trucker who says "Well, I pulled out of Pittsburgh", in describing life on the road.
  • Pittsburgher Wiz Khalifa often mentions the city in his music.
  • Pittsburgher Mac Miller often mentions his hometown in his music

Video games

  • The Fallout 3 DLC "The Pitt" takes place in Pittsburgh
  • The Last of Us

References


Text submitted to CC-BY-SA license. Source: List of fiction set in Pittsburgh by Wikipedia (Historical)



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