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Baltimore has been described by some as "Charm City," by others as "Bodymore, Murderland."〔(Guardian "Life and death in Bulletmore, Murderland" by Frances Stead Sellers )〕 F. Scott Fitzgerald, who lived there for five years in the 1930s, wrote of it, "I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite."〔''Maryland'' by Earl Arnett et al. p. 339〕 A recent listing of ten best movies set in Baltimore includes works by Baltimore natives such as Anne Tyler, John Waters, and Barry Levinson.〔(filmcritic.com "The Ten Best Real Baltimore Movies" by Don Willmott )〕 Filmmakers explained their choice of Baltimore as a setting for the 2009 movie ''He's Just Not That Into You'' because "We were trying to think of an American urban city that didn't feel like you'd seen it a million times before," and "We wanted something like, not exactly every-small-town U.S.A., but every-urban-young-center U.S.A., so we could all see ourselves in these people."〔http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/movies/bal-al.justnot01feb01,0,7113919.story〕 ==Books== * Thomas Harris' Dr. Hannibal Lecter operated a psychiatric practice in Baltimore before his confinement. * Baltimore is the setting for the police procedural books and series based on the work of author and former police reporter David Simon, ''Homicide: Life on the Street'' and ''The Wire''. In addition, Simon's reality-based book and TV miniseries on drug dealers, ''The Corner'', is set in Baltimore. Simon is a former reporter for the ''Baltimore Sun''.〔(filmcritic.com "The Wire: Season One" by Mark Athikas )〕 * Baltimore native Tom Clancy, a graduate of Loyola Blakefield and Loyola College in Maryland, often includes Baltimore and other parts of Maryland in his action/spy thriller novels and their corresponding feature films. * Maryland native Nora Roberts also uses Maryland and particularly parts of the Chesapeake Bay as settings for her novels. This includes Baltimore in such novels as ''Inner Harbor''. * Anne Tyler lived in Baltimore for many years, and many of her books are set there, including ''The Accidental Tourist'', which was also made into a movie. * Laura Lippman is the author of detective fiction set in Baltimore, most notably the Tess Monaghan novels. * The fictional character, Jane Porter, Tarzan's love interest, is a native of Baltimore and the last part of the first Tarzan novel, ''Tarzan of the Apes'', is set there. * In the 1922 short story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", the titular character is born in Baltimore. * Tim Cockey's mystery novel series, starring the character Hitchcock Sewell, is based in Baltimore. * Jamie Wasserman's novel Blood and Sunlight is set in nearby Ellicott City with several scenes in Baltimore as well. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Baltimore in fiction」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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