Books set in Monterey, United States

Monterey

• 1962

  Big Sur

  1962 · Jack Kerouac · novelBixby Canyon, Monterey

  Kerouac flees his fame to Ferlinghetti’s cabin in Bixby Canyon and cracks up.

• 1959

  Reunion in Big Sur

  1959 · Alfred Perlès · memoirBig Sur, Monterey

  Perlès joins Henry Miller in his Big Sur cabin, twenty years after their Paris years.

• 1957

  Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

  1957 · Henry Miller · memoirBig Sur, Monterey

  Miller’s fifteen years on the cliffs of Big Sur, with neighbours, children and visitors.

• 1956

  A Devil in Paradise

  1956 · Henry Miller · memoirBig Sur, Monterey

  The astrologer Moricand comes to stay at Miller’s Big Sur cabin, and it goes badly.

• 1945

  Cannery Row

  1945 · John Steinbeck · novel

  Monterey’s sardine-cannery street: Doc’s lab, the flophouse, the grocery and its idlers.

• 1935

  Tortilla Flat

  1935 · John Steinbeck · novel

  The paisanos of Monterey’s hills: wine, friendship and a house shared by a happy few.