Bohemian Crossroads: Art & Culture Collide Then Subside on the Monterey Peninsula

Learn more about the interconnected band of bohemians who created an artists paradise along the Pacific coast, south of San Francisco and north of Los Angeles, in this collection of contemporary writing and vintage articles.

This unique publication (the book, a writer's journal, and a slipcase printed with original art), was created in conjunction with the California Preservation Foundation annual conference.

This book explores California s Monterey Peninsula as a crossroads of art, culture, architecture, literature, and society in the first half of the twentieth century. A group of prominent academics and historians has contributed essays, articles, and excerpts that discuss the lives and artistic endeavors of notable residents of the region during this fascinating period.

Among those discussed in the text are Robinson Jeffers, Lincoln Steffens, George Sterling, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Austin, Sinclair Lewis, Joaquin Miller, Charles Stoddard, Upton Sinclair, Richard Neutra, Arnold Genthe, William Keith, Arthur Mathews, Anne Bremer, E. Charlton Fortune, Armin Hansen, Clark Hobart, Mary DeNeale Morgan, Xavier Martinez, Helen Bruton, Margaret Bruton, Jeannette Maxfield Lewis, Paul Whitman, Charles Sumner Greene, John Cunningham, Johan Hagemeyer, Edward Weston, R.M. Schindler, and Pauline Schindler.