List of people from Bolinas, California explained

Bolinas, California is an unincorporated community in Marin County, California with a reputation as an art colony. This list includes any notable people known to have resided in Bolinas.

• Donald Allen, editor, publisher
• Dawn-Michelle Baude, poet
• Bill Berkson, poet^{[1] [2]}
• Ted Berrigan, poet^[2]
• Peg Bracken, author
• Joe Brainard, artist and writer^[2]
• Richard Brautigan, writer^[2]
• Gail Carriger, writer
• Jim Carroll, author, poet, rock musician^[2]
• C. West Churchman, philosopher
• Suzanne Ciani, electronic music pioneer
• Tom Clark, poet, biographer^{[1] [2]}
• Joel Coen, one of the Coen Brothers, screenwriter, film director
• Signy Coleman, actress
• Clark Coolidge, poet
• Robert Creeley, poet, author^{[1] [2]}
• Stephen Emerson, author^[2]
• Paulette Frankl, artist, photographer, biographer
• Robert Grenier, poet^[2]
• Paul Harris, sculptor and lithographer^[2]
• Bobbie Louise Hawkins, poet^[2]
• Stephan Jenkins, singer, songwriter, Third Eye Blind frontman
• Paul Kantner, rhythm guitarist, rock vocalist, songwriter
• Harmony Korine, film director, producer, screenwriter
• Joanne Kyger, poet with ties to the Beat generation^{[1] [2]}
• Anne Lamott, nonfiction author^[2]
• Kenneth Lamott, writer^[2]
• Annie Leibovitz, photographer
• Mary Tuthill Lindheim, sculptor and studio potter
• Lewis MacAdams, poet, author^[2]
• Jerry Mander, activist, author
• Paul McCandless, master oboist, reed player, co-founded Oregon, world class musician
• Frances McDormand, actress
• Barry McGee, artist
• Duncan McNaughton, poet
• David Meltzer, poet^[2]
• Walter Murch, Academy Award-winning film editor, sound mixer
• Bill Niman, founder with Orville Schell of Niman Ranch Meats
• Alice Notley, poet^[2]
• Arthur Okamura, painter and silk screen artist^[2]
• Guy Overfelt, conceptual artist
• Gladys Kathleen Parkin, wireless radio operator
• Ponponio Lupugeyun, Coast Miwok, born c. 1799 to the Guaulen local tribe area of present-day Bolinas; insurgent
• Bill Rafferty, television personality
• Stephen Ratcliffe, poet^[2]
• Charles A. Reich, professor of law at Yale University, author
• Aram Saroyan, poet, novelist, playwright^[2]
• Strawberry Saroyan, journalist and author
• Orville Schell, dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism^[2]
• Tony Serra, radical civil rights attorney, tax resister
• Grace Slick, rock singer, songwriter
• Sean Thackrey, winemaker
• Susie Tompkins Buell, founder of Esprit
• Lewis Warsh, writer and artist^[2]
• Peter Warshall, ecologist, member of the board of directors of the Bolinas Community Public Utility District^[2]
• Philip Whalen, poet^[2]
• Michael Wolfe, poet, author, publisher, documentary film producer^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Recommended Reading on The Bolinas Scene . November 11, 2018 . Jamie . Aylward . Adobe Books Blog.
2. Web site: Nothing Lasts Forever . Dreaming as One: Poetry, Poets and Community in Bolinas, California, 1967–1980 . Kevin . Opstedal.