A Tribute to Henry Miller by the author Jerry Kamstra reading from the major works with a special guest reading Anaïs Nin . Monday Sept. 8th 7-9 P.M. at River Inn in Big Sur. $3.00. First state of the smaller version of the poster with hand lettering added
réf. 51-6227Big Sur Calif.: 1980. Smaller version of the poster with ink hand lettering beneath the image: Henry Miller/Memorial Library. 17 x 11inches. .Jerry Kamstra January 2 1935 – November 26 2019 was an American novelist poet artist and community organizer. Kamstra is best known for his novels Weed: Adventures Of A Dope Smuggler and The Frisco Kid. Kamstra was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts NEA Writers Grant in 1978 for his novel General Popo: A Novel of Mexico. He was a prominent artist denizen and “Beatnik” of San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood in the late 1950s and early 1960s as chronicled in The Frisco Kid his novel of the Beat Generation. The novel has become a cult classic which literary critic and Kerouac biographer Gerald Nicosia claims is “a Beat masterpiece on par with On The Road.”Early Life: Jerry Kamstra was born January 2 1935 in Riverside California. Kamstra’s father Richard “Dutch” Kamstra was a Dutch immigrant who made his living as a hard-rock miner spending 50 years working underground. Dutch learned to speak English by reading The Katzenjammer Kids comic strip arriving on a three-masted sailing ship in San Francisco in 1928 from Holland. Dutch became a member of the IWW International Workers of the World as a longshoreman. Dutch moved to southern California and among his first jobs down there was milking cows for author Edgar Rice Burroughs in Tarzana California. Kamstra’s mother Lexie Kamstra was the daughter of a fruit tramp Nettie Cody a distant relative of Buffalo Bill Cody. Jerry had three siblings – two brothers Richard Kamstra and Robert Kamstra; and one sister Bessie Kamstra. Big Sur, Calif.: 1980 unknown
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