Editing Kansas (section)

===Literature===
{{See also|Kansas Notable Book Awards}}
The state's most famous appearance in literature was as the home of Dorothy Gale, the main character in the novel ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'' (1900). [[Laura Ingalls Wilder]]'s ''[[Little House on the Prairie (novel)|Little House on the Prairie]]'', published in 1935, is another well-known tale about Kansas.

Kansas was also the setting of the 1965 best-seller ''[[In Cold Blood]]'', described by its author [[Truman Capote]] as a "nonfiction novel". Mixing fact and fiction, the book chronicles the events and aftermath of the 1959 murder of a wealthy farmer and his family who lived in the small West Kansas town of [[Holcomb, Kansas|Holcomb]] in [[Finney County]].

The fictional town of [[Smallville]], Kansas is the childhood home of Clark Kent/[[Superman]] in American comic books published by [[DC Comics]]. Also Keystone City is a Kansas city where [[The Flash]] works and lives.

The science fiction novella ''[[A Boy and His Dog]]'', as well as the [[A Boy and His Dog (1975 film)|film]] based on it,<ref name=NYT>{{cite web|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=A Boy and His Dog|author-link=Richard Eder|first=Richard|last=Eder|date=June 17, 1976|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=EE05E7DF1738E061BC4F52DFB066838D669EDE|access-date=May 9, 2020|archive-date=October 7, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131007224519/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=EE05E7DF1738E061BC4F52DFB066838D669EDE|url-status=live}}</ref> take place in post-apocalyptic [[Topeka, Kansas|Topeka]].

The winner of the 2011 [[Newbery Medal]] for excellence in children's literature, ''[[Moon Over Manifest]]'', tells the story of a young and adventurous girl named Abilene who is sent to the fictional town of Manifest, Kansas, by her father in the summer of 1936. It was written by Kansan [[Clare Vanderpool]].

[[Lawrence, Kansas|Lawrence]] is the setting for a number of science fiction writer [[James Gunn (author)|James Gunn]]'s novels.