Vancouver, Whistler & Vancouver Island - Washington, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest - page 864

Ephron and was known for her satirical, semi-autobiographical prose. David Guterson is
famous for his award-winning Snow Falling on Cedars (1994), a vivid tale of prejudice
in a San Juan Island fishing community. Popular author Tom Robbins, a La Conner resid-
ent, has won numerous devotees for his wacky, countercultural novels, including Even
Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976).
Jon Krakauer is the award-winning author of Into Thin Air (1997) and Under the Ban-
ner of Heaven (2003), while Sherman Alexie is a Native American author who adapted
his short story This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona into the excellent movie
Smoke Signals (1998). Timothy Egan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and journalist,
lives in Seattle.
Oregon's biggest literary name is the late Ken Kesey, whose One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest (1962) became a textbook of 1960s nonconformity and inspired a movie
that won five Oscars; Kesey also penned the brilliant Sometimes a Great Notion (1964).
Novelist Chuck Palahniuk, best known for Fight Club (1996), lives part-time in Portland
and writes about it in Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon (2003). Port-
land also boasts two novelists with a bent towards science fiction and fantasy: the prolific
and multi-award-winning Ursula LeGuin is responsible for The Left Hand of Darkness
(1969) and The Farthest Shore (1972), while Jean Auel is best known for her widely read
Clan of the Cave Bear series.
British Columbia's ever-active literary scene has cultivated a wide range of talent. The
English novelist and poet Malcolm Lowry, who's best known for his semi-autobiograph-
ical Under the Volcano (1947), lived in British Columbia for many years before his death
in Sussex. British Columbia resident WP Kinsella's award-winning novel Shoeless Joe
(1982) was adapted for the film Field of Dreams (1989). Douglas Coupland ( Generation
X, 1991) makes his home in Vancouver, as does science-fiction guru William Gibson,
who coined the term 'cyberspace' in his 1984 novel Neuromancer .

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