ABSTRACT
After the 1906 earthquake, the Bohemian community was forced to abandon San Francisco. Some moved to Carmel, which became the nucleus of a flourishing literary scene that included such giants of American literature as Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, Robinson Jeffers, and—only a little less directly—John Steinbeck, and finally, the King of the Beats, Jack Kerouac. At the same time, the emerging city of the south—Los Angeles—was becoming a part of the circuit of the wandering Bohemians.
