This is a list of San Francisco Bay Area writers, who live in, or write about, the San Francisco Bay Area.
- This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.
- Kim Addonizio
- Isabel Allende
- Charlie Jane Anders
- Tamim Ansary
- Peter S. Beagle
- John Bear
- Dodie Bellamy
- Terry Bisson
- Vance Bourjaily
- Steven R. Boyett
- Kate Braverman
- Patrick Califia
- Michael Chabon
- Avram Davidson
- Kyra Davis
- Alonzo Delano
- N. A. Diaman
- Diane di Prima
- Howard Dully
- Dossie Easton
- David Eggers
- Stephen Elliott
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Timothy Ferris
- Karen Joy Fowler
- Eric Garris
- Herbert Gold
- Andrew Goldfarb
- Lisa Goldstein
- Daphne Gottlieb
- Judy Grahn
- Daniel Handler
- Douglas Hergert
- Dorothy J. Heydt
- Jane Hirshfield
- Adam Hochschild
- Khaled Hosseini
- Daedalus Howell
- Richard Kadrey
- Alan Kaufman
- Jack Kerouac
- Derek Kirk Kim
- Laurie R. King
- Maxine Hong Kingston
- Ellen Klages
- Jack London
- Nick Mamatas
- Armistead Maupin
- Micheline Aharonian Marcom
- Joaquin Miller
- Carol Denise Simms-Mitchell
- Annalee Newitz
- Katia Noyes
- Charlotte Painter
- Peter Plate
- Elle Peyarre
- Tim Pratt
- Michael Pollan
- Carol Queen
- Lisa Quinn
- Justin Raimondo
- Ruth Reichl
- Daniel Reid
- Mark Rein-Hagen
- Kathryn Reiss
- Barbara Jane Reyes
- Kim Stanley Robinson
- Rudy Rucker
- Susan Schaller
- Ariel Schrag
- Elena Mauli Shapiro
- William Shurtleff
- Daniel B. Silver
- Dave Smeds
- Jane Smiley
- Jeremy Adam Smith
- Starhawk
- George R. Stewart
- Matt Bernstein Sycamore
- Amy Tan
- Michelle Tea
- Daniel Terdiman
- Adrian Tomine
- Gail Tsukiyama
- Mark Twain
- Abraham Verghese
- Ayelet Waldman
- Alice Walker
- Vivian Walsh
- Alice Waters
- Sean Wilsey
- Herman Whitaker
- Russ Woody
- Tobias Wolff
- Daisy Zamora
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