Gerald Haslam (born 1937) is the author credited with having created an awareness of "the other California" (in a book of the same name), the state's untrendy small town and rural reaches. A native of Oildale in the Bakersfield area, he has often written about the Great Central Valley (also in a book of the same name), about country music ("Workin' Man Blues"), about the despair and exaultation of blue collar people in a golden state ("That Constant Coyote", … Wikipedia
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