Editing Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan (section)

===Books===
*The character [[The Fountainhead#Gail Wynand|Gail Wynand]] in [[Ayn Rand]]'s 1943 novel ''[[The Fountainhead]]'' grew up in Hell's Kitchen. Several chapters in the book are extensive flashbacks to his childhood and youth there. At the end of the book, he buys up several blocks of Hell's Kitchen, in which to build the world's tallest skyscraper.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}
*Apollo, the protagonist from [[Rick Riordan]]'s 2016 novel ''[[The Hidden Oracle]]'', crashes in a Hell's Kitchen dumpster after being turned mortal, and meets and is saved from muggers by his companion Meg McCaffrey there.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}
*The titular character in [[Taylor Jenkins Reid]]'s 2017 novel ''[[The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo]]'' was born in Hell's Kitchen.<ref>[https://www.libraryjournal.com/review/the-seven-husbands-of-evelyn-hugo "Review: ''The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo''"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220124001700/https://www.libraryjournal.com/review/the-seven-husbands-of-evelyn-hugo |date=January 24, 2022 }} by Jennifer Mills, ''[[Library Journal]]'', 1 April 2017</ref>
*''City of Girls'' (2019) by [[Elizabeth Gilbert]] is set in Hell's Kitchen in the 1940s.<ref>Thomas-Kennedy, Jackie. [https://www.startribune.com/review-city-of-girls-by-elizabeth-gilbert/510930352/ "Review: ''City of Girls,'' by Elizabeth Gilbert; Fiction: Elizabeth Gilbert's chatty, freewheeling narrator overcomes most obstacles easily in this love song to Manhattan."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923222138/https://www.startribune.com/review-city-of-girls-by-elizabeth-gilbert/510930352/ |date=September 23, 2020 }}, ''[[Star Tribune]]'', June 7, 2019. Accessed August 10, 2020. "She begins in 1940, when, after being 'excused' from Vassar 'on account of never having attended classes,' she moves to Hell's Kitchen and into the Lily Playhouse with her Aunt Peg and Peg's partner, Olive, a woman billed in public and in fact as Peg's 'secretary'."</ref>
*Patrick Bateman in Bret Easton Ellis' ''[[American Psycho]]'' (1991) regularly disposed of his victims in Hell's Kitchen, as well as picking up several prostitutes, such as the returning character Christie.