Literature
- George W. Aguilar, Sr. (1930- )
- George Atkinson (1819 - 1889)
- Jean M. Auel (1936-)
- Mary Barnard (1909-2001)
- Don Berry (1932-2001)
- Binford and Mort
- Book Publishing
- Richard Brautigan (1935-1989)
- Beverly Cleary (1916-)
- Coyote (legend)
- Dark Horse Comics
- Harold Lenoir Davis (1894-1960)
- Gordon B. Dodds (1932-2003)
- Eva Emery Dye (1855-1947)
- Federal Writers' Project in Oregon
- Sara Bard Field (1882-1974)
- Fishtrap Inc.
- Vi Gale (1917 -2007)
- Molly Gloss (1944-)
- Zane Grey (1872–1939)
- Hazel Hall (1886-1924)
- Samuel Magnus Hill (1851-1921)
- Lawson Fusao Inada (1938-)
- Shizue Iwatsuki, (1897-1984)
- Nard Jones (1904-1972)
- Alvin Josephy (1915-2005)
- Albert R. Kitzhaber (1915-2006)
- Damon Knight (1922-2002)
- Jennifer Gray Kyle (1859-1913)
- Ursula K. Le Guin (1929 -)
- Library Association of Portland
- Literary Arts
- Fred Lockley (1871-1958)
- Reub Long (1898-1974)
- Bernard Malamud (1914–1986)
- Edison Marshall (1894-1967)
- Martha Ferguson McKeown (1903-1974)
- Walt Morey (1907-1992)
- Vladimir Nabokov in Oregon
- Richard Neuberger (1912-1960)
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962-)
- Alice Day Pratt (1872-1963)
- Ernst Skarstedt (1857-1929)
- Kim Stafford (1949 - )
- Untide Press
- Frances Fuller Victor (1826-1902)
- Virginia Euwer Wolff (1937-)
- C. E. S. Wood (1852-1944)
