Books Written by Madisonians
  • Don't Look Behind You – Samuel Rogers (1944)
          The author was a professor at the UW. The story takes place in a college town with many similarities to Madison.
  • Blood Knot – Bruce Algozin (1982)
  • The Chimney Sweeper – John Peyton Cooke (1995)
          Cooke put the Skeleton Story and the drifter-murderer story together and fashioned a novel. It takes place in a city called
          "Isthmus City". The lakes in this fictional city have Indian names.
  • Vampire Cabbie – Fred Schepartz (2007)
          About a 1000 year old vampire forced to drive a taxi in Madison.
  • The Locomotive God by William Ellery Leonard
          Professor of English at the UW