List of fiction set in Pittsburgh

Books

• Afterimage by Kathleen George
• 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
• 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
• The Last Chicken in America by Ellen Litman
• The Leap Year Boy by Marc Simon
• 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
• Out of This Furnace by Thomas Bell
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• Riot by William Trautmann
• Seducing Mr. Darcy by Gwyn Cready
• Sent for You Yesterday by John Edgar Wideman
• 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
• by Carolyn Astfalk
• by Carolyn Astfalk

  Comic books

• Firestorm the Nuclear Man
• The Pitt
• Star Brand

  Film

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
• 1910s - Joe Turner's Come and Gone
• 1920s - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - set in Chicago
• 1930s - The Piano Lesson - Pulitzer Prize
• 1940s - Seven Guitars
• 1950s - Fences - Pulitzer Prize
• 1960s - Two Trains Running
• 1970s - Jitney
• 1980s - King Hedley II
• 1990s - Radio Golf

  Television shows

Movies

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 ", 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.
• "Life During Wartime," which appears on the 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

• Fallout 3
• The Last of Us