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washes down from the
craggy hillsides above.

The Drive » Backtrack up
narrow, winding Sycamore
Canyon Rd for more than 2
miles, then turn right onto Hwy
1 southbound. After two more
twisting, slow-moving miles, look
for Nepenthe restaurant on your
right. The Henry Miller Library
is another 0.4 miles south, at a
hairpin turn on your left.

6 Henry

Miller Library

‘It was here in Big Sur

I first learned to say

Amen!’ wrote Henry

Miller, a surrealist

novelist and local

resident from 1944 to

1962. More of a beatnik
      memorial, alt-cultural
      venue and bookshop,
      the Henry Miller Library

(%831-667-2574; http://www.

henrymiller.org; 48603 Hwy

1; admission by donation;

h11am-6pm Wed-Mon;

iW) was never actually

the writer’s home. The

house belonged to

Miller’s friend, painter

Emil White. Inside are

copies of all of Miller’s

published books, many

of his paintings and a

collection of Big Sur and

Beat Generation material.

Pfeiffer Beach