List of people from Bolinas, California

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.

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• Donald Allen, editor, publisher ^[1]
• Dawn-Michelle Baude, poet
• Bill Berkson, poet ^{[2] [1]}
• Ted Berrigan, poet ^[1]
• Peg Bracken, author
• Joe Brainard, artist and writer ^[1]
• Richard Brautigan, writer ^[1]
• Gail Carriger, writer
• Jim Carroll, author, poet, rock musician ^[1]
• C. West Churchman, philosopher
• Suzanne Ciani, electronic music pioneer
• Tom Clark, poet, biographer ^{[2] [1]}
• Joel Coen, one of the Coen Brothers, screenwriter, film director
• Signy Coleman, actress
• Clark Coolidge, poet
• Robert Creeley, poet, author ^{[2] [1]}
• Stephen Emerson, author ^[1]
• Paulette Frankl, artist, photographer, biographer
• Robert Grenier, poet ^[1]
• Paul Harris, sculptor and lithographer ^[1]
• Bobbie Louise Hawkins, poet ^[1]
• 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 ^{[2] [1]}
• Anne Lamott, nonfiction author ^[1]
• Kenneth Lamott, writer ^[1]
• Annie Leibovitz, photographer
• Mary Tuthill Lindheim, sculptor and studio potter
• Lewis MacAdams, poet, author ^[1]
• 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 ^[1]
• Walter Murch, Academy Award-winning film editor, sound mixer
• Bill Niman, founder with Orville Schell of Niman Ranch Meats
• Alice Notley, poet ^[1]
• Arthur Okamura, painter and silk screen artist ^[1]
• 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 ^[1]
• Charles A. Reich, professor of law at Yale University, author
• Aram Saroyan, poet, novelist, playwright ^[1]
• Strawberry Saroyan, journalist and author
• Orville Schell, dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism ^[1]
• 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 ^[1]
• Peter Warshall, ecologist, member of the board of directors of the Bolinas Community Public Utility District ^[1]
• Philip Whalen, poet ^[1]
• Michael Wolfe, poet, author, publisher, documentary film producer ^[1]

References

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