Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac

male, deceased (1969)
Jack Kerouac (pronounced) (March 12 1922 - October 21 1969) was an American novelist, writer, poet, and artist. He is perhaps the best known of a...
Michael McClure

Michael McClure

male, 77 years old
Michael McClure, an American poet, playwright, songwriter and novelist, was born in Marysville, Kansas on (October 20, 1932) before moving to San...
Dick Price

Dick Price

male, deceased (1985)
Dick Price co-founded Esalen Institute, opening the Big Sur grounds to course leaders and students in October 1962, including the course leader...
John Laird

John Laird

male
John Laird is a politician from California, currently representing the 27th district in the California State Assembly as a Democrat. Laird and Mark...
Jaime de Angulo

Jaime de Angulo

male, deceased (1950)
Jaime de Angulo was born in Paris of Spanish parents. He came to America in 1905 to become a cowboy, and eventually arrived in San Francisco on the...
William Schutz

William Schutz

male, deceased (2002)
William C. Schutz (1925 - November 9, 2002) was a psychologist at the Esalen Institute (Big Sur, California) in the 1960s. He later became the...

Jim Simkin

male, deceased (1984)
Jim Simkin was an early seminal figure in the history of Gestalt Therapy. Born James Saloman Simkin in Calgary, Canada in 1920, he died in Big Sur,...
Alice Eastwood

Alice Eastwood

female
Alice Eastwood (1859 in Toronto, Canada - October 30 1953 in San Francisco, California) is considered an American botanist, since her life after...
Linda Wolf

Linda Wolf

female, 59 years old
Linda Wolf, (born March 17, 1950) is an American-born Photographer and Writer. She is the author of "Speaking and Listening From the Heart"...
Dan Kiger

Dan Kiger

male, 97 years old (Los Angeles, California, United States)
"I'm bein' ascriminized housing, it is!".