Palo Alto: Stories
His fiction debut and best-known entry point into his literary work.
Author guide
James Franco Books in Order
James Franco is an American actor, filmmaker, visual artist, and writer. His literary work includes the linked short-story collection Palo Alto, the novel Actors Anonymous, poetry collections and chapbooks, hybrid memoirs combining prose, poetry, photography, and visual art, collaborative nonfiction, and books documenting his film and visual-art projects.
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Directing Herbert White: Poems
His debut full-length poetry collection and a concise introduction to his recurring Hollywood and celebrity themes.
Outside the series
Bibliography by category
Novels (1)
- Actors Anonymous
novel · 2013
Nonfiction (2)
- A California Childhood
memoir · 2013
- Hollywood Dreaming: Stories, Pictures, and Poems
hybrid-memoir · 2014
Short fiction (1)
- Palo Alto: Stories
short-story-collection · 2010
A fiercely vivid collection of stories about troubled California teenagers and misfits--violent and harrowing, from the astonishingly talented actor and artist James Franco. Palo Alto is the debut of a surprising and powerful new literary…
Poetry (3)
- Strongest of the Litter
poetry-chapbook · 2012
- Directing Herbert White: Poems
poetry-collection · 2014
The debut poetry collection by the actor, director, and writer James Franco.
- Straight James / Gay James
poetry-chapbook · 2015
Collaborations (1)
- Flip-Side: Real and Imaginary Conversations with Lana Del Rey
collaborative-nonfiction · 2016
Other (5)
- James Franco: The Dangerous Book Four Boys
art-book · 2012
- Rebel
art-book · 2012
- Moving Pictures / Moving Sculptures: The Films of James Franco
film-art-catalog · 2013
- James Franco: New Film Stills
art-book · 2014
- Bungalow 89
art-book · 2014