Favorites in Oregon Non-Fiction
This bibliography of non-fiction titles is based on an article by Brian Booth, founder of Literary Arts and the Oregon Book Awards, and was first published in the OLA Quarterly, summer 1999, and re-printed here with his permission. Mr. Booth is the editor of Wildmen, Wobblies & Whistlepunks: Stewart Holbrook's Lowbrow Northwest, OSU Press, 1992.
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| Author |
Selected Titles |
| Applegate, Shannon |
Skookum: An Oregon Pioneer Family's History and Lore (1986) |
| Ashworth, William |
The Left Hand of Eden: Meditations on Nature and Human Nature (1999) |
| Cody, Robin |
Voyage of a Summer Sun: Canoeing the Columbia River (1995) |
| Inada, Lawson Fusao |
Legends from Camp: Poems (1992) |
| Kessler, Lauren |
Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family (1993) |
| Kittredge, William |
Hole in the Sky: a Memoir (1992) |
| Moore, Kathleen Dean |
Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water (1995) |
| O'Donnell, Terence |
An Arrow in the Earth: General Joel Palm and the Indians of Oregon (1991) |
| Ramsey, Jarold |
Coyote Was Going There: Indian Literature of the Oregon Country (1977) |
| Rice, Clyde |
A Heaven in the Eye (1984) |
| Stafford, William |
Stories That Could Be True: New and Collected Poems (1977) |
| Strong, Thomas Nelson |
Cathlamet on the Columbia: Recollections of the Indian People and Short Stories of Early Pioneer Days in the Valley of the Lower Columbia River (1906) |
| Tisdale, Sallie |
Stepping Westward: The Long Search for Home in the Pacific Northwest (1991) |
| Walth, Brent |
Fire at Eden's Gate: Tom McCall and the Oregon Story (1994) |
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