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Books In Print
NONFICTION
In Thought and Acton: The Enigmatic Life of S. I. Hayakawa
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE 68588-0630, 2011; $26.95 paperback · 978-0-8032-3764-3, Canadian $30.95/ £19.99 UK; e-book available · 978-0-8032-3976-0
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Traces the fascinating life of an iconic American writer, teacher, politician and family man.
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Workin' Man Blues: Country Music in California, 2nd edition
Winner of the Rolling Stone Magazine Ralph J. Gleason Award.
Winner of the Certificate of Commendation (American Association for State and Local History)
Heyday Books, Berkeley, CA 94709, 2005; Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-017-1, $21.95.
Explores what country music means to the Golden State and what the Golden State means to Country Music—a cultural history.
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The Great Central Valley: California’s Heartland
Winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers’ Award for Nonfiction
Winner of the Commonwealth Club Medal for Californiana
Winner of an Award of Merit from the Association of State and Local History, as well as other honors for photography and design.
University of California Press, Berkeley, CA 94720, 1993; $70 cloth $36 paper.
An extended essay on place illustrated by photographers Steven Johnson and Robert Dawson.
Coming of Age in California
Devil Mountain Books, Box 4115, Walnut Creek, CA 94596, 1990; Second Edition, 2000, paper $14.95.
The second edition of these personal essays was named to the
San Francisco Chronicle's list of the twentieth-century's 100 best non-fiction books from the West.
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The Other California: The Great Central Valley in Life and Letters
Capra Press, 1990; second edition, University of Nevada Press, Mail Stop 166, Reno, NV 89557-0076, 1993; paper $15.95.
Reissued in a second, enlarged edition in 1994. Eighteen essays and articles originally published in periodicals.
FICTION
Grace Period
University of Nevada Press, Mail Stop 166, Reno, NV 89557-0076, 2006; cloth, $24.95
A sixtyish journalist with prostate cancer meets a sixtyish physician with breast cancer. Together they enjoy a grace period.
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Haslam's Valley
Winner of 2006 Josephine Miles National Literary Award
Heyday Books, Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-018-X, 2005, $18.95
A career-summarizing collection of fiction and non-fiction.
"Haslam has that rare ability to write about places without
ignoring their flaws and at the same time acknowledging their virtues."
--Jonah Raskin, Press Democrat
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Straight White Male
Winner of Western States Book Award for 2001
and was named Book of the Year by Foreword magazine.
University of Nevada Press, Mail Stop 166, Reno, NV 89557-0076, 2000; paper, $17.95
A middle-aged couple outgrow their pasts as they struggle to care for aging parents and maturing children.
"Arguably his... greatest book."
--Jonathan Kirsch, L.A. Times
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Manuel and the Madman (with Janice Haslam)
Thwack! Pow! Productions, Box 984, Penngrove, CA 94951, 2000; paper, $9.95
Half-Anglo, half-Chicano, Manuel Ryan survives seventh grade. A humorous novel about and for teens.
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Condor Dreams and Other Fictions
University of Nevada Press, Mail Stop 166, Reno, NV 89557-0076, 1994; $24.95 cloth, $15.95 paper.
Varied subjects and styles, though mostly about guys, and set in rural and small-town California.
The Great Tejon Club Jubilee
Devil Mountain Books, Box 4115, Walnut Creek, CA 94596, 1995; paper, $11.95
The redoubtable Tejon Club Gang stumbles into one beer-fueled misadventure after another in these 14 related stories.
That Constant Coyote: California Stories
Winner of 1990 Josephine Miles National Literary Award
University of Nevada Press, Mail Stop 166, Reno, NV 89557-0076, 1990; $22.00 cloth, $17.00 paper.
This book collects a variety of stories dealing with rural and small-town folks in California. Still going strong after three printings.
ANTHOLOGIES
Many Californias: Literature from the Golden State
Winner of 1993 Benjamin Franklin Award
Second edition, University of Nevada Press, Mail Stop 166, Reno, NV 89557-0076, 1999; paper $18.95.
This edition adds the work of Robert Hass, Gina Berriault, Molly Giles, Mas Masumoto, Carolyn See, Ross MacDonald, Oakley Hall, Victor Martinez, Al Young, and Chitra Divakaruni, as well as new selections by William Saroyan, Hisaye Yamamoto, Jack London, and Wallace Stegner.
Jack London's Golden State: Selected California Writing
Heyday Books, Berkeley, CA 94709, 1999; paper $15.95.
A sampler of London's varied writing about his native state, with a biographical essay and individual introductions to each piece.
Where Coyotes Howl and Wind Blows Free: Growing Up in the West ( with Alexandra R. Haslam )
University of Nevada Press, Mail Stop 166, Reno, NV 89557-0076, 1995; cloth, $20.00.
This multi-regional, multi-cultural collection of stories and essays for younger readers plays against the Western stereotype. Includes authors such as Stegner, Hong Kingston, Brautigan, McFadden, Soto and Mowry.
BOOKLETS, MONOGRAPHS AND REPRINTS
The Horned Toad (Adapted and illustrated by Garth Haslam)
Thwack! Pow! Productions, Box 984, Penngrove, CA 94951, 1994; $1.95.
Gerry’s most anthologized short story presented in comic-book form for beginning readers.
Lawrence Clark Powell
Boise State University Western Writers’ Series, 1991; ISBN: 0-88430-101-X
A 52-page survey of the life and career of one of the West’s preeminent men of letters.
Jack Schaefer
Boise State University Western Writers’ Series, 1975; ISBN: 0-88430-019-6.
A 46-page survey of the life and career of one of the West’s preeminent men of letters.
Films
Rider
Co-script writer of a 22-minute movie produced by Randy Lippert and directed by Jim Weiner for Spotswood Productions, 1992. Based on Gerry’s short story "Rider."
The Miyazaki Family: Missing in Action
Won 1995 Golden Eagle Award from CINE.
Script Consultant of a 22-minute film produced and directed by Michael Litle for Abitare Film Group, Inc., 1995. Film is based on Gerry’s short story "Missing in Action."
Earlier Publications
FICTION
The Man Who Cultivated Fire and Other Stories
Capra Press, 1987
Snapshots: Glimpses of the Other California
Devil Mountain Books, 1985
Hawk Flights: Visions of the West
Seven Buffaloes Press, l983
The Wages of Sin: Collected Stories
Duck Down Press/Windriver Books, l980
Masks: A Novel
Old Adobe Press, l976
Okies: Selected Stories
lst edition, 1973, New West Publications; 2nd edition, l974; 3rd edition, Peregrine-Smith, 1975
NONFICTION
Voices of a Place: Social and Literary Essays from the Other California
Devil Mountain Books, 1987
The Language of the Oil Fields
Old Adobe Press, 1972
ANTHOLOGIES
California Heartland: Writing from the Great Central Valley
Co-written with James D. Houston; Capra Press, 1978
Afro-American Oral Literature
Harper & Row, l974
Western Writing
University of New Mexico Press, l974
Forgotten Pages of American Literature
Houghton-Mifflin, l970
BOOKLETS, MONOGRAPHS, & REPRINTS
Out of the Slush Pile and Into Print
Co-written with Perry Glasser; Poets & Writers, Inc., l993
Baiting the Hook
Poets & Writers, Inc., 1990
Voices of a Place: The Great Central Valley
California Academy of Sciences, l986
William Eastlake
Steck-Vaughn Southwest Writers’ Series, 1970
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