Referenced In

Jurassic Park
by Michael Crichton

"Only seventy‐five miles wide at its narrowest point, the country was smaller than the state of Maine."

State of Fear
by Michael Crichton

"Got a fabulous place in Aspen, and a great house in Maine as well."

East of Eden
by John Steinbeck

"Cyrus Trask mourned for his wife with a keg of whisky and three old army friends who had dropped in on their way home to Maine."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"his mother was a square-jawed rebel from Maine, a place where good discipline in the use of funds was standard Protestant practice."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"Everything else about Scott was as pale and severe as the Maine winters her late mother-in-law used to talk about, though Maureen never would have dared to say such a thing out loud, to anyone, because as an American “white” woman it wasn’t her place to make such judgments."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"Escape from work in the strawberry and cabbage fields of California, or from the horizonless hamlets of Maine to the modest affluence of South Whittier, was accomplishment enough."