Reading Seattle: The City in Prose

UW Press, 2004

$22.50 Hardcover

Seattle, with its spectacular natural beauty and rough frontier history, has inspired writers from its earliest days. This anthology spans seven decades and includes fiction, memoirs, histories, and journalism that define the city or use it as a setting, imparting the flavor of the city through a literary prism.

Authors featured in Reading Seattle: Sherman Alexie, Peter Bacho, Lynda Barry, Archie Binns, Matt Briggs, Colette Brooks, Rebecca Brown, Michael Byers, Jack Cady, Horace R. Cayton, Walt Crowley, Charles D'Ambrosio, Timothy Egan, Earl W. Emerson, David Guterson, Neil Henry, Josephine Herbst, Richard Hugo, J. A. Jance, Thom Jones, Mark Lindquist, Betty MacDonald, Mary McCarthy, Lydia Minatoya, Murray Morgan, John Okada, Mary Brinker Post, Jonathan Raban, Paisley Rekdal, Tom Robbins, Nancy Wilson Ross, Emily Baillargeon Russin, Roger Sale, Charlotte Watson Sherman, David Shields, Natalia Rachel Singer, Monica Sone, Matthew Stadler, Emmett Watson, Edwin Weihe, and Barbara Wilson. (From the UW Web site).