Welcome to the Pittsburgh Novel Project

Black and white title block that says "The Pittsburgh Novel Western Pennsylvania in Fiction and Drama, 1792-2022," with the authors names, Peter Oresick and Jake Oresick, above and below the title.The Pittsburgh Novel: Western Pennsylvania in Fiction and Drama, 1792-2022, a Penn State Libraries Open Publishing publication, is an annotated bibliography of all known fiction with a significant geographical setting in any of Pennsylvania’s 26 westernmost counties between 1792 and 2022. Please visit the How to Search page for information about searching, filtering, and exporting citations.

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If you use this bibliographic database for your research, please cite as follows:

Oresick, Peter, and Jake Oresick. The Pittsburgh Novel: Western Pennsylvania in Fiction and Drama, 1792-2022. University Park, PA: Penn State Libraries Open Publishing, 2023. https://doi.org/10.26209/pittsburghnovel