Natives
Robert Fulghum: Seattle - Non-Fiction Writer ("All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten")
Meg Greenfield: Seattle - late Non-Fiction Writer ("Washington")
David Guterson: Bainbridge Island? - Fiction Writer ("Snow Falling On Cedars")
J.A. Jance?: Seattle - Mystery Writer ("Injustice For All: A J.P. Beaumont Mystery")
Gypsy Rose Lee: Seattle - late Writer/Stripper
Mary McCarthy: Seattle - late Writer ("The Group")
Betty McDonald: Seattle - late Writer ("The Egg and I")
John Nance: Tacoma - Fiction Writer
Non-Native Residents
Richard Bach: Fiction Writer ("Jonathan Livingston Seagull") - Orcas Island
Jonathan Raban: British Travel Writer ("Passage To Juneau: A Sea and It's Meanings (Vintage Departures) - Seattle
Tom Robbins: Fiction Writer ("Even Cowgirls Get the Blues") - La Conner
Ann Rule: True Crime Writer ("The Stranger Beside Me") - Des Moines
Rebecca Wells: Fiction Writer ("Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood") - Bainbridge Island
Non-Natives That Passed Away
Ernest K. Gann: Fiction Writer ("Fate Is The Hunter") - lived in Friday Harbor in the San Juan Islands at the time of his death
Alex Haley: Non-Fiction Writer ("Roots") - lived in Seattle at the time of his death
Jack Olsen: True Crime Writer ("The Misbegotten Son: A Serial Killer and His Victims") - lived on Bainbridge Island at the time of his death in 2002.
Theodore Roethke: (1908-1963) Poet ("Open House") - lived in Seattle while teaching at the University of Washington
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