Welcome to San Francisco's most comprehensive walking literary tour!

San Francisco is rich with literary history, with writers from all over the world spending time and gathering inspiration here. During the tour we touch on a number of eras and movements but we concentrate mostly on post Gold Rush and the Beat Generation.

This two hour walking tour takes place in North Beach and Chinatown. visiting the old haunts including stops at the former Montgomery Street residence of Allen Ginsberg, the site of San Francisco's first literary journal, where Mark Twain and Bret Harte cut their teeth, the San Francisco bohemian cafe where John Steinbeck, Truman Capote and William Saroyan hung their hats, the bar where Dylan Thomas, Jack Kerouac, and Neil Cassady would often end up stinko, and the bookstore that not only changed the course of book publishing in this country but helped uphold the 1st amendment.

Join me, San Francisco author, Scott Lettieri for the Bay Area's only walking tour dedicated to the literary history of what Herb Caen first coined "Baghdad by the Bay." Did you know that Samuel Clemens first used the name "Mark Twain" when he moved to Northern California? Or that Robert Frost, Isadora Duncan, Alice B. Toklas and Jack London were all born in San Francisco?

Tour Details: The cost of the tour is 25 dollars per person, with special group and couple rates. Included in the tour: a complimentary "Jack Kerouac Cocktail," souvener bookmarks and a year by year time line document for San Francisco literary history and events. We meet every Saturday at noon in front of City Lights bookstore on Columbus and Broadway. Occasionally we will add times to fit your schedule. Call for your reservation: (415) 441-0140
Or Email us at:  Jakemontana@earthlink.net