Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
(see also Cities)
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In the Library: Articles
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Lubove, Roy. Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh: Government, Business & Environmental Change [1969](Pittsburgh: U. of Pittsburgh, 1996).
McCormick, Charles H. Seeing Reds: Federal Surveillance of Radicals in the Pittsburgh Mill District, 1917-1921 (Pittsburgh: U. of Pittsburgh, 1997).
Stave, Bruce M. The New Deal & the Last Hurrah: Pittsburgh Machine Politics (Pittsburgh: U. of Pittsburgh, 1970).
Weber, Michael P. Don't Call Me Boss: David L. Lawrence, Pittsburgh's Renaissance Mayor (Pittsburgh: U. of Pittsburgh, 1988).
Zahniser, Keith A. Steel City Gospel: Protestant Laity & Reform in Progressive-Era Pittsburgh (NY: Routledge, 2005).
In the Library: Fiction
Attaway, William. Blood on the Forge [1941] (NY: NY Review, 2005).
Bathanti, Joseph. East Liberty (Simpsonville SC: Banks Channel, 2001).
Bell, Thomas. Out of This Furnace [1941] (Pittsburgh: U. of Pittsburgh, 1976). Slovak workers in the steel mills.
Blaise, Clark. Pittsburgh Stories (Erin ONT: Porcupine's Quill, 2001).
Canin, Ethan. Carry Me Across the Water (NY: Random House, 2002).
Chabon, Michael. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (NY: Wm. Morrow, 1988).
French, Albert. I Can't Wait on God (NY: Anchor, 1998).
Goran, Lester. Tales from the Irish Club: A Collection of Short Stories (Kent OH: Kent State U., 1996).
__________. She Loved Me Once, & Other Stories (Kent OH: Kent State U., 1997).
__________. Bing Crosby's Last Song (NY: Picador, 1998).
__________. Outlaws of the Purple Cow & Other Stories (Kent OH: Kent State U., 1999).
Handler, Daniel. Watch Your Mouth (NY: Thomas Dunne, 2000).
Hogan, James P. Realtime Interrupt (NY: Bantam, 1996).
Leavitt, Carolyn. Living Other Lives (NY: Warner, 1995).
Lissfeldt, J. Fred. The Dutchman Died, & Other Tales of Pittsburgh's South Side (Pittsburgh: U. of Pittsburgh, 1994). German-Americans.
Manfredi, Renée. Where Love Leaves Us (Iowa City: U. of Iowa, 1994).
McGrath, Kristina. Housework: A Novel (Bridgehampton NY: Bridge Works, 2001).
O'Nan, Stuart. Everyday People (NY: Grove, 2001).
Silvis, Randall. Disquiet Heart (NY: Thomas Dunne, 2002).
Spencer, Wen. Bitter Waters (NY: New American Library, 2003).
Walton, David. Ride: A Novel (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon U., 2002).
Wideman, John Edgar. Damballah [1981] (NY: Vintage, 1988).
__________. Hiding Place [1981] (NY: Vintage, 1988).
__________. Sent For You Yesterday (NY: Avon, 1983).
__________. Reuben (NY: Henry Holt, 1987). African-American lawyer.
__________. The Homewood Books (Pittsburgh: U. of Pittsburgh, 1992). Damballah, Hiding Place & Sent For You Yesterday.
__________. All Stories Are True: The Stories of John Edgar Wideman (London: Picador, 1994).
__________. Two Cities (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998).
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