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- 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