TTT: Washington State Authors

Top Ten Tuesday: Authors from Washington State (and one of their books you might recognize)

Shelby Van Pelt (Tacoma) Remarkably Bright Creatures (Set in a fictitious town on the Puget Sound)

Rick Steves (Edmonds) Europe Through the Back Door and many, many guidebooks to travel in Europe that are constantly being updated. Named as the most famous author from Washington State by Business Insider.

Kristin Hannah (Bainbridge Island) The Women (Several of her books are set in Washington State but this one isn't.)

David Guterson (Seattle) Snow Falling on Cedars (Set in on a fictitious island in the Puget Sound)

Jess Walter (Spokane) Beautiful Ruins (set in Italy) and The Cold Millions (set in Spokane.)

Daniel James Brown (Redmond) The Boys in the Boat: The True Story of Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (about the University of Washington rowing team.)

Laurie Frankel (Seattle) This Is How It Always Is  (about a family with a transgender kid who moves to Seattle.)

Marissa Meyer (Tacoma) Cinder and other books in the series. I actually attended the launch party for the 4th book in the series, Winter.

Sherman Alexie (Grew up in Wellpinit on the Spokane Indian Reservation, now lives in Seattle) The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Frank Herbert (Born in Tacoma, was living on Mercer Island at time of his death) author of the Dune series.

Jim Lynch (Olympia) Truth Like the Sun (about the Seattle World's Fair) and The Highest Tide (a personal favorite about a zany kid who loves to explore the Southern Puget Sound tide flats)

Two Washington famous authors I've not read...

Julia Quinn (Seattle) The Bridgerton series (but I watched the first season of Bridgerton on Netflix. Does that count?)

Debbie Macomber (Born in Yakima, lives in Port Orchard)  Washington State's most prolific author with over 200 published books.

-Anne