Donald Trump might have reached the magic number on Thursday of GOP delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination for president.
But that isn't stopping hundreds of authors around the country - including several high-profile, and Pulitzer Prize-winning liberal authors from the Bay Area - to grab their pens to voice their disapproval of Trump for president.
Amy Tan, Dave Eggers, and ZZ Packer of San Francisco, Michael Chabon of Berkeley, Tobias Wolff of Stanford and Maxine Hong Kingston of Oakland, are just a few of the nearly 500 authors who have written an "Open Letter to the American People: Writers Speak Out Against Donald Trump." LitHub posted the letter on Tuesday.
Among the reasons that Trump should not be president, the writers say, is that the United States should be wary of "dictatorship is the history of manipulation and division, demagoguery and lies."
As of Thursday, more than 17,000 people had signed the authors' online petition.
Some Bay Area authors are defiantly not on the list. Michael Savage, the conservative political radio host and author, sent an email to The Chronicle saying: “I AM THE AUTHOR OF MANY BEST SELLING BOOKS AND I APPROVE OF DONALD TRUMP.”
One LitHub commenter wrote that literary outcry "should give Trump a two-point bump."
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And Trump probably doesn't need to worry about hundreds of authors, as he secured more than 1,200 Republican delegates to support him.
