Editing William Randolph Hearst (section)

====Literature====
* [[John Dos Passos]]'s novel ''[[The Big Money (novel)|The Big Money]]'' (1936) includes a biographical sketch of Hearst.
* [[Jack London]]'s futuristic, dystopian novel ''[[The Iron Heel]]'' (1908) refers to Hearst by name; and the plot "predicts" the destruction of his publishing empire (along with the Democratic Party) in 1912 by means of an oligarchy of plutocrats and industrial trusts engineering the cessation of his advertising revenue.
* In [[Ayn Rand]]'s novel ''[[The Fountainhead]]'' (1943) and its eponymous [[The Fountainhead (film)|1949 film adaptation]], the character [[Gail Wynand]], a newspaper magnate who thinks he can control public sentiment but in reality is only a servant of the masses, is inspired by and modeled after the life of Hearst.<ref>[[Jennifer Burns (writer)|Burns, Jennifer]]. (2009). ''Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right''. Oxford. pp. 44ff.</ref>
* In [[John Steinbeck]]'s novel ''[[The Grapes of Wrath]]'' (1939), Hearst is anonymously described as the "newspaper fella near the coast" who "got a million acres" and looks "crazy an' mean" in pictures (ch. 18).
* In [[Gore Vidal]]'s [[historical fiction|historic novel]] series, ''[[Narratives of Empire]]'', Hearst is a major character.
* [[Cormac McCarthy]]'s novel ''[[The Crossing (McCarthy novel)|The Crossing]]'' (1994) refers to Hearst by name and workers at his million-acre ranch in [[Chihuahua (state)|Chihuahua]], La Babícora, act as antagonists  in the story.
* [[Scott Westerfeld]]'s novel ''[[Goliath (Westerfeld novel)|Goliath]]'' (2011) depicts Hearst in World War I.
* In [[Charlaine Harris]]' ''[[The Russian Cage]]'' (2021), Hearst was the ruler of the HRE (formerly west coast states of US) who permitted the tsar and his entourage to settle in the defunct Navy base at San Diego.