# Books set where you live. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 8, 2005, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-set-where-you-live/316112 "2005-08-08T14:06:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-set-where-you-live/316112/61 "2005-08-10T06:20:21Z")
There’s a surprising lack of literature set in Alabama. The University where I work has graduated some first rate or at least highly successful authors (Harper Lee, E.O. Wilson and Lonnie Colman among others) but I don’t know of any famous works set here. When I worked in Milledgeville, Georgia it was interesting- it was a town of 20,000 people that most people (many people in Georgia, in fact) have never heard of, but it was the setting of most of the tales of Flannery O’Connor, the novel _Paris Trout_, and elements of the fiction of Alice Walker and Joel Chandler Harris. They way undercapitalize on their literary distinction. ---
**Author:** ![nivlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-set-where-you-live/316112/62 "2005-08-10T06:31:38Z")
Three books come to mind: The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett 1st to Die, by James Patterson Incriminating Evidence, by Sheldon Siegel Yep, San Francisco. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2005, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-set-where-you-live/316112/63 "2005-08-10T11:37:01Z")
[QUOTE=Anastasaeon] The only reason I’d say Derry=Bangor is the Paul Bunyan Statue, the Canal, the Water Tower (Standpipe), I want to say the airport, but there are a couple of around, not just in Bangor… [QUOTE] I’m sure you’re right, like I said, I usually only stop in Bangor for gas on my way someplace even further north. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-set-where-you-live/316112.md?page=3)