Which US novelist wrote 'Big Sur'?
Big Sur Brautigan, Emile Norman and Jack Kerouac. Big Sur acquired a bohemian reputation with these newcomers. Kerouac followed Miller to Big Sur and included the rugged coast in large parts of two of his novels. He spent a few days in early 1960 at fellow poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's cabin in Bixby Canyon and based his novel "Big Sur" on his time there. Well-known individuals have called Big Sur home, including diplomats Nicholas Roosevelt, famed architects Nathaniel A. Owings and Philip Johnson, Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling, show business celebrities Kim Novak and Allen Funt, and business executives Ted Turner and David
Big Sur south of Carmel in the Big Sur River valley, known to locals as Big Sur Village. The various informal boundaries applied to the region have gradually expanded north and south over time. Esther Pfeiffer Ewoldson, who was born in 1904 and was a granddaughter of Big Sur pioneers Micheal and Barbara Pfeiffer, wrote that the region extended from the Little Sur River south to Slates Hot Springs. Members of the Harlen family, who homesteaded the Lucia region south of Slates Hot Springs, said that Big Sur was "miles and miles to the north of us." Prior to the construction of