Referenced In

The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac

"“How many years been since you've been home?” … “More years than I care to count I guess. Ohio was where I was from.”"

The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac

"bashing across Illinois and Indiana and into old snowy Ohio"

If He Hollers Let Him Go
by Chester Himes

"No, I'm from Ohio,' I said."

Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu

"Dorothy rides the bus through miles of highways, perhaps nondescript to some, but to her, this is grandeur. The countryside she pictured, in the country she long imagined. She is going north, to Ohio, and she can work with that, too."