In Thought and Acton: The Enigmatic Life of S. I. Hayakawa
Now available as an E-book
Winner of: Award of Merit from American Association of State and Local History
Winner of: The Institute of General Semantics' S.I. Hawakawa Prize
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 · ASIN: B007JQILPO
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Traces the fascinating life of an iconic American writer, teacher, politician and family man.
Workin' Man Blues: Country Music in California, 3nd edition
Now available as an E-book
Winner of the Rolling Stone Magazine Ralph J. Gleason Award. Winner of the Certificate of Commendation (American Association for State and Local History)
University of California Press, Berkeley, CA 94709, 2012; Paperback, ISBN: 978-0-520-27505-8, $34.95, £24.95.
Explores what country music means to the Golden State and what the Golden State means to Country Music—a cultural history.
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
Now Available as an E-book
The second edition of these personal essays was named to the San Francisco Chronicle's readers' list of the twentieth-century's top 100 best non-fiction books from the West.
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.
Books In Print: Fiction
Grace Period
Now available as an E-book
University of Nevada Press, Mail Stop 166, Reno, NV 89557-0076, 2006; cloth, $24.95. e-book available at Amazon
A sixtyish journalist with prostate cancer meets a sixtyish physician with breast cancer. Together they enjoy a grace period.
Winner of 2006 Josephine Miles National Literary Award
Devil Mountain Books, Box 4115, Walnut Creek, CA 94596, 1995; E-book available
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
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
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.
University of Nevada Press, Mail Stop 166, Reno, NV 89557-0076, 1994; $24.95 cloth, $15.95 paper.
In this collection of twenty-five short stories of varied subjects and styles, Gerald Haslam explores the rural areas and small towns of his native region - California's Great Central Valley.
Afterword by Gary Soto.
The Great Tejon Club Jubilee
Now available as an E-book
Devil Mountain Books, Box 4115, Walnut Creek, CA 94596, 1995; paper, $11.95. e-book available
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
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
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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 )
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.
Gerry’s most anthologized short story presented in comic-book form for beginning readers.
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
Leon Patterson, A California Story
In Thought and Acton: The Enigmatic Life of S. I. Hayakawa
Workin' Man Blues: Country Music in California, 3nd edition
The Great Central Valley: California’s Heartland
Coming of Age in California
Click here to read "Bloodrites," an essay from this book!
The Other California: The Great Central Valley in Life and Letters
Grace Period
Haslam's Valley
Straight White Male
Manuel and the Madman (with Janice Haslam)
Condor Dreams and Other Fictions
The Great Tejon Club Jubilee
That Constant Coyote: California Stories
Many Californias: Literature from the Golden State
Jack London's Golden State: Selected California Writing
Where Coyotes Howl and Wind Blows Free: Growing Up in the West ( with Alexandra R. Haslam )
The Horned Toad (Adapted and illustrated by Garth Haslam)
Lawrence Clark Powell
Jack Schaefer
The Man Who Cultivated Fire and Other Stories
Snapshots: Glimpses of the Other California
The Wages of Sin: Collected Stories
Masks: A Novel
Okies: Selected Stories
Voices of a Place: Social and Literary Essays from the Other California
The Language of the Oil Fields
California Heartland: Writing from the Great Central Valley
Afro-American Oral Literature
Western Writing
Forgotten Pages of American Literature
Out of the Slush Pile and Into Print
Baiting the Hook
The Great Central Valley : Voices of a Place
William Eastlake