List of fiction set in Pittsburgh

This is a list of fiction set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Books

 * Afterimage by Kathleen George
 * All in Good Time by Carolyn Astfalk
 * An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
 * American Rust by Philipp Meyer
 * Another Kind of Monday by William Coles
 * The Autobiography of My Body by David Guy
 * Blood on the Forge by William Attaway
 * The Book of Jonas by Stephen Dau
 * Burning Valley by Philip Bonosky
 * Captains and Kings by Taylor Caldwell
 * Christine by Stephen King
 * Disquiet Heart by Randall Silvis
 * Duffy's Rocks by Edward Fenton
 * East Pittsburgh Downlow by Dave Newman
 * Elfhome (series) by Wen Spencer
 * Emily, Alone by Stewart O'Nan
 * Fallen by Kathleen George
 * Greenhorn on the Frontier by Ann Finlayson
 * Ghosts of the Golden Triangle by Mord McGhee
 * The Homewood Books by John Edgar Wideman
 * Iron City by Lloyd L. Brown
 * Ironblood (novel) by Mord McGhee
 * The King's Orchard by Agnes Sligh Turnbull (1963)
 * The Last Chicken in America by Ellen Litman
 *  The Leap Year Boy by Marc Simon (2013)
 * Lethal Legacy by Gerald Myers
 * A Little Girl in Old Pittsburg
 * Looking For The General by Warren Miller
 * The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes by K.C. Constantine
 * The Memory Keeper's Daughter
 * A Model World and Other Stories by Michael Chabon
 * Monongahela Dusk by John Hoerr
 * The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
 * Ornamental Graces by Carolyn Astfalk
 * Out of This Furnace by Thomas Bell
 * The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
 * Remember the End by Agnes Sligh Turnbull (1938)
 * Riot by William Trautmann
 * Seducing Mr. Darcy by Gwyn Cready (2008)
 * Sent for You Yesterday by John Edgar Wideman
 * Settling Accounts: Drive to the East
 * She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick
 * Taken by Kathleen George
 * The Tempering by Gloria Skurzynski
 * Three Golden Rivers by Olive Price
 * The Two Georges
 * U.S.A. by John dos Passos
 * Ukiah Oregon (series)
 * Watch Your Mouth by Daniel Handler
 * Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon

Comic books

 * Firestorm the Nuclear Man
 * The Pitt
 * Star Brand

Plays

 * The Pittsburgh Cycle - In 2005, August Wilson completed a ten-play cycle, nine of which are set in Pittsburgh, chronicling the African-American experience in the 20th century. These are:
 * 1900s - Gem of the Ocean (2003)
 * 1910s - Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1984)
 * 1920s - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1982) - set in Chicago
 * 1930s - The Piano Lesson (1986) - Pulitzer Prize
 * 1940s - Seven Guitars (1995)
 * 1950s - Fences (1985) - Pulitzer Prize
 * 1960s - Two Trains Running (1990)
 * 1970s - Jitney (1982)
 * 1980s - King Hedley II (2001)
 * 1990s - Radio Golf (2005)

Music

 * "America", written by Paul Simon and performed by Simon & Garfunkel, includes the line "Kathy", I said, / As we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh, / Michigan seems like a dream to me now."
 * "Duquesne Whistle," which appears on the Bob Dylan album Tempest, was co-written by Dylan and Robert Hunter. The song describes a train ride through Pittsburgh. NPR's Ann Powers speculates that this may be the same train described in Dylan's "Lo and Behold".
 * "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Bruce Springsteen describes "It's cloudy out in Pittsburgh / It's raining in Saigon / Snow's falling across the Michigan line."
 * "I'm Not Dead (I'm in Pittsburgh)", which appears on the Frank Black album Fast Man Raider Man, was co-written by Black and Pittsburgher Reid Paley. It draws upon Pittsburgh's historical connection with the zombie genre.
 * "I finally found a place to call my own / a place where all good sinners can get stoned / I'll keep my holy vision, you keep your stupid pride / You said I couldn't make it on my own / But I'm not dead (I'm in Pittsburgh) / And now I can't get out of town / But I'm not dead (I'm in Pittsburgh) / They've got me all strung, come cut me down."


 * "Life During Wartime," which appears on Talking Heads' Fear of Music and Stop Making Sense, asks the listener in a post-apocalyptic landscape, "Heard about Houston? Heard about Detroit? Heard about Pittsburgh, PA?" Long-time Talking Heads drummer Chris Frantz grew up in Pittsburgh.
 * "Lo and Behold," which appears on The Basement Tapes by Bob Dylan and the Band, tells the story of the narrator recounting a train ride with "I come into Pittsburgh / At six-thirty flat / I found myself a vacant seat / An' I put down my hat."
 * "Sweet Little Sixteen", by Chuck Berry, rhymes "Pittsburgh, P.A." with "Frisco Bay."
 * "Six Days on the Road", written by Earl Green and Carl Montgomery, describes a trucker who says "Well, I pulled out of Pittsburgh", in describing life on the road.
 * Pittsburgher Wiz Khalifa often mentions the city in his music.
 * Pittsburgher Mac Miller often mentions his hometown in his music

Video games

 * The Fallout 3 DLC "The Pitt" takes place in Pittsburgh
 * The Last of Us