Monterey, California City Guide
For over 20 years, Pamela Lanier's Monterey, California Travel Guide has been your connection to Monterey's tourism community with invaluable details on local attractions, restaurants, shopping, museums, history, outdoor recreation and more.
Artists and Writers
Writers Jack London, Robinson Jeffers, Henry Miller, John Steinbeck and Robert Louis Stevenson were all inspired by this region. Big Sur was the haunt of Henry Miller; Robinson Jeffers built Tor House on Carmel Point. California painters settled in Carmel, fostering its renown as an artist colony. Ansel Adams was born in Carmel.