In memory of the 1906 earthquake -- book suggestions?

[Lisa]

I know that there's already a San Franciso thread for today
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=5043127

... but I thought I'd focus more on the long-term social and cultural impacts. Have you ever come across non-fiction or fiction which describes the quake?

Some examples:

Non-fiction biography -- "The Judge's Wife: Memoirs of a British Columbia Pioneer", by Eunice M. L. Harrison, 2002. This book describes life in 19th-century British Columbia, but at the end there's an eyewitness account of the author's visit to San Francisco, which was interrupted by the earthquake.


Fiction -- "Locked Rooms", by Laurie R. King, 2005. This is part of a series which uses the premise that Sherlock Holmes was real, and ended up marrying a young American woman. Her family had survived the earthquake, but she's had a rather troubled past, and it turns out that something which happened in the disaster's aftermath is at the root of it.

"Boston Blackie", by Jack Boyle. I hadn't seen this one for a long time, but I faintly recalled a scene which takes place in the camp set up by the survivors. I think the book is now out of print, but this other website seems to confirm it ...


http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/~rbrandt/sfmystery/extras/geographic.html

1906 Earthquake and Fire
The Avalanche by Gertrude Atherton (1919)
Boston Blackie by Jack Boyle (1919)
The Lost Gold of San Francisco by Michael Castleman (2003)
1906 by James Dalessandro (2004)
Fire and Fog by Dianne Day (1996)
Travers by Sara Dean (1908)
Swindled!: The Journal of Fitz Morgan by Bill Doyle (2006)
Casa Madrone by Mignon G. Eberhart (1980)
Locked Rooms by Laurie R. King (2005)
Shaken Down by Alice MacGowan and Perry Newberry (1925)
The Reckoning by Patrick McInroy (1995) <1908; post-earthquake>
PaperQuake by Kathryn Reiss (1998)
The Golden Crucible by Jean Stubbs (1976)
The Trembling Hills by Phyllis A. Whitney (1956)