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Caballeria y Collell, Juan.  Santa Barbara resident priest, author of History of the City of Santa Barbara, California, from Its Discovery to Our Own Days (SB: F. de P. Gutierrez, Printer, 1892) [Spec, Printers Z478.86.G88 C33 1892], and History of San Bernardino Valley, from the Padres to the Pioneers, 1810-1851 (1902).

Caire, Helen.  Spent childhood summers on Santa Cruz Island, which was owned by her family. Author of Señor Castillo: Cock of Santa Cruz Island (Santa Cruz Island Foundation, 1948) [Main PZ10.3.C14 Se 1990], Santa Cruz Island Anthology (Santa Cruz Island Foundation, 1989) with Marla Daily and Carey Stanton  [Spec F868.S23 S3268 1989], Santa Cruz Island: A History and Recollections of an Old California Rancho (1993) [Spec F868.S23 C33 1993].

Caldwell, Jayne Craven (1921-    ).  Carpinteria resident and newspaper columnist, author of Carpinteria As It Was (Papilion Press, 1979) [Spec F869.C3 C34 v.1] and More About Carpinteria As It Was (Papilion Press, 1982) [Spec F869.C3 C34 v.2].

Camarillo, Albert (1948-    ).  Author of Chicanos in a Changing Society: From Mexican Pueblos to American Barrios in Santa Barbara and Southern California, 1848-1930 (1979) [Main, Coleccion, and Spec F869.S45 C25 1996].

Campbell, Patricia A.  Santa Barbara resident, co-author of Cheap Thrills: A Survival Guide for Living in Santa Barbara (Canyon Croft Press, 1981), with Anna R. Clarke [Spec, Printers Z478.86.C35 C36 1981].

Cann, John Allen.  Poet, influential in Santa Barbara area in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Innovator of the California Poets in the Schools projects; taught seminars at elementary and junior high school level. His works include: Lemurian Rhapsodies (1976) [Spec PS3553.A497 L4], Translations from the Translucent (1977) [Spec PS3553.A497 T73 1977], Accompaniments for a Dozen Roses (1980) [Spec PS3553.A497 A63 1980], Halfway to Zeno’s House (1983) [Spec, Printers Z478.86.M83 C346 1983], and Solitude the Shape of a Woman (1987) [Spec PS3553.A497 S64 1987]. See also: Gilbar, Literary, 147.

*Cannon, Lou (1933-    ).  Long-time Washington Post reporter and Summerland resident, whose works include: Ronnie and Jesse: A Political Odyssey (1969) [Main F866.2.C35], The McCloskey Challenge (1972) [Main E840.8.M33 C3 1972], Reporting: An Inside View (1977) [Main PN4781.C35], Reagan (1982) [Main E877.C36 1982], President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime (1991) [Main E877.C35 1991], Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD (1997) [Spec F869.L89 N327 1997], Ronald Reagan: The Presidential Portfolio (2001) [Main E877.C365 2001]. UCSB also is doing an oral history with him.

Capps, Walter Holden (1934-1997).  UCSB Professor of Religious Studies and Congressman. Taught very popular courses on Vietnam. Works include: Ways of Understanding Religion (1972) [Main BL25.C3 1972], Time Invades the Cathedral: Tension in the School of Hope (1972) [Main BV4638.C28], Motif-Research as a Comparative Technique in Theological Systems Analyses (1972) [Main BR118.C366], Seeing with a Native Eye: Essays on Native American Religion (1976) [Main E98.R3 S37 1976], Silent Fire: An Invitation to Western Mysticism (1978) with Wendy M. Wright [Main BV5072 .S54 1978], The Unfinished War: Vietnam and the American Conscience (1982) [Main E169.12.C27 1990], The Monastic Impulse (1983) [Main and Spec, ARC BV4518.C36 1983], Thomas Merton: A Preview of the Asian Journey (1989) [Spec BX2435.M48 1989], The New Religious Right: Piety, Patriotism, and Politics (1990) [Main BR1642.U5 C36 1990], The Vietnam Reader (1991) [Main DS557.7.V5625 1991], and Religious Studies: The Making of a Discipline (1995) [Main BL41.C36 1995]. Also associated with CSDI; the CSDI Collection (Mss 18) includes material relating to him.

Carlson, Vada F. (1897-    ).  Author of This Is Our Valley (Santa Maria Historical Society, 1959), a history of the Santa Maria Valley [Spec F868.S23 C37 1959]. Other works include: High Country Canvas (1972) [Main and Spec PS3553.A734 H5], and The West: As Portrayed by Western Artist Joe Rodriguez (1985) [Spec, Wyles NC139.R58 R63 1985].

Carrillo, Leo (1881-1961).  Actor in films and television, and author of The California I Love (1961), which includes a chapter on the annual Rancheros Vistadores ride in Santa Barbara County [Coleccion PN2287.C3 A3].

Carter, Dori.  Santa Barbara scriptwriter and author of novel Beautiful WASPs Having Sex (2000). See also: SB News-Press, Aug. 6, 2000.

Carver, Raymond (1938-1988).  Poet and short story writer who taught English at UCSB, 1974-1975, including the Creative Writing (English 105) course during winter quarter. Developed a friendship with Noel Young who published his Put Yourself in My Shoes (Capra, 1974) [Main and Spec PS3553.A7894 P88 and Spec, Printers Z478.86.C36 C369 1974], At Night the Salmon Move (Capra, 1976) [Main and Spec PS3553.A7894 A9], Furious Seasons and Other Stories (Capra, 1977) [Spec PS3553.A7894 F87], and Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories (Capra, 1983) [Main and Spec PS3553.A7894 F5 1983], as well as Dostoevsky: A Screenplay (Capra 1985) with Tess Gallagher [Main PN1997.A1 C37 1985]. Other works include: Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976) [Main PS3553.A7894 W55], Distress Sale (1981) [Spec PS3553.A7894 D58 1981], What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981) [Spec PS3553.A7894 W4 1981], The Pheasant (1982) [Spec PS3553.A7894 P5 1982], Cathedral (1983) [Main and Spec PS3553.A7894 C3 1983], If It Please You (1984) [Spec, Printers Z239.L657 C37 1984], Where Water Comes Together With Other Water (1985) [Main PS3553.A7894 W44 1985], The Window (1985) [Spec PS3553.A7894 W558 1985], Ultramarine (1986) [Main PS3553.A7894 U58 1986], Two Poems (1986) [Spec PS3553.A7894 T86 1986], Where I’m Calling From (1988) [Main PS3553.A7894 W43 1988], Elephant: A Story (1988) [Spec PS3553.A7894 E44 1988], A New Path to the Waterfall (1989) [Main PS3553.A7894 N48 1989], All of Us (1998) [Main PS3553.A7894 A17 1998], and Call If You Need Me (2001) [Main PS3553.A7894 C26 2001]. His works were made into the 1993 movie Short Cuts by Robert Altman, with accompanying short story collection Short Cuts (1993) [Main PS3553.A7894 S48 1993]. See also: Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carver (1990) [Spec PS3553.A7894 Z48 1990]. Sources: Gilbar, Literary, 151; Remembering Ray: A Composite Biography of Raymond Carver (Capra, 1993) [Spec, Printers Z478.86.C36 R444 1993].

Cate, Curtis Wolsey (1884-1976).  Author of two books on the Cate School in Carpinteria: School Days in California; The Story of Santa Barbara School, 1910-1950 (1960) [SRLF LD7501.C3 C3 and Spec LD7501.C237 C373 1961] and Lighter and Sadder Sides of School Life (1966) [Spec LD7501.C237 C374 1966].

Cater, William B. (1891-1978).  Santa Barbara resident and long-time member of the City Water Commission. Author of Travels by Air, by Sea, by Land (1962) [Spec G463.C354 1962]. See also: SB News-Press, Mar. 15, 1964.

Center for the Preservation of Modern History.  Santa Barbara based non-profit educational trust and publisher of Prevailing Winds magazine, with the aim “to bring light to significant socio-political issues and events that otherwise would go under-reported or, too often, unmentioned in the main-stream media.”

Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions.  An independent think tank created in 1959 by Robert Maynard Hutchins, which met in Santa Barbara to discuss the crucial issues of modern society. The Center involved hundreds of scholars and experts, and emerged in response to the abuses of American civil liberties during the McCarthy era. The Center became a major publisher, including the Center Magazine. After Hutchins’ death in 1977, CSDI became part of UCSB until it finally closed in 1987. Special has extensive materials in its CSDI Collection (Mss 18).

Chagnon, Napoleon (1938-    ).  UCSB Professor Emeritus of Sociobiology and controversial anthropologist, studied the Yanomamö tribes of the Amazon rain forest. Works include: Yanomamö: The Fierce People (1968) [Main F2520.1.Y3 C5], Studying the Yanomamö (1974) [Main GN345.C45], Evolutionary Biology and Human Social Behavior (1979) with William Irons [Main GN365.9.E96], Yanomamö: The Last Days of Eden (1992), Adaptation and Human Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective (2000) with William Irons and Lee Cronk [Main GN365.9 A33 2000].

Chamberlin, Susan.  Author of “The Life of Dr. Francesco Franceschi and His Park” in Pacific Horticulture (63:3-4, 2002) [SBHC Mss 44].

Champlin, Charles (1926-   ).  Retired Los Angeles Times columnist and occasional Carpinteria resident. Works include: The Flicks: or, Whatever Became of Andy Hardy (1977) [Main PN1993.5.A1 C46 1977], Back There Where the Past Was: A Small-Town Boyhood (1989) [Main F129.H24 C48 1989], George Lucas: The Creative Impulse: Lucasfilm’s First Twenty Years (1992), [Main PN1999.L78 C48 1992], John Frankenheimer: A Conversation (1995) [Main PN1998.3.F738 C43 1995], Hollywood’s Revolutionary Decade (SB: John Daniel & Co. 1998) [Spec PN1995.C4437 1998], Mitchum: In His Own Words (2000) [Main PN2287.M648 A5 2000], and My Friend, You Are Legally Blind: A Writer’s Struggle With Macular Degeneration (SB: John Daniel & Co. 2001) [Spec RE661.M3 C48 2001].

Chan, Sucheng.  UCSB Professor of Asian American Studies and Global & International Studies. Author of numerous works on Asian American topics, including: This Bittersweet Soil: The Chinese in California Agriculture, 1860-1910 (1986) [Asian Am. Studies and Spec HD8039.F32 U62 1986], Asian Californians (1991) [Asian Am. Studies F870.O6 C436 1991], and Hmong Means Free: Life in Laos and America (1994) [Asian Am. Studies and Spec DS558.8.H56 1994].

*Chandler, Russell (1932-    ).  One-time Santa Ynez Valley resident and religion columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Author of Understanding the New Age (1988) [Spec, ARC BP605.N48 C52 1988], Racing Toward 2001: the Forces Shaping America’s Religious Future (1992) [Spec BL2525.C44 1992], and Doomsday (1993) [Spec BT876.C465 1993]. Special has his research files in its American Religions Collection (ARC Mss 2).

Chapin, Elsa (1886-1973).  Teacher and co-author of A New Approach to Poetry (1929) with Russell Thomas [Main PN1031.C5], and The Literary Interests of Sir Francis Bryan: A Study in Early Tudor Ideas (1930). Also articles in The English Journal. See also: SB News-Press, Mar. 15, 1964, A16.

Chase, Harold Stuart (1890-1970).  Santa Barbara resident, author of Hope Ranch: A Rambling Record (Santa Barbara Historical Society, 1963) [Main F868.S23 C4 and Spec F868.S23 C48]. Brother of Pearl Chase.

Chase, J. Smeaton (1864-1923).  British author who wrote several books on California, including California Coast Trails: A Horseback Ride from Mexico to Oregon (1913), which includes a description of Santa Barbara [Spec F866.C48 1913], and Our Araby: Palm Springs and the Garden of the Sun (1920) [Spec F869.P18 C48].  See also: Gilbar, Tales, 67; Gilbar, Literary, 179-182.

Chase, Pearl (1888-1979).  Influential resident of Santa Barbara and editor of Cacti and Other Succulents: An Annotated List of Plants Cultivated in the Santa Barbara Region (SB, 1930), compiled and reviewed by Ralph Hoffmann, E. O. Orpet, Eric Walther, and James West [SEL and Spec QK149.H55]. Sister of Harold Stuart Chase.

Chatfield-Taylor, Hobart (1865-1945).  Travel writer who moved to Santa Barbara later in life.  Also wrote novels, essays, and biographies.  His works include: Two Women & a Fool (1895), The Idle Born (1900), The Crimson Wing (1902), Molière (1906) [Main PQ1852.C5], Goldoni (1913) [Main PQ4699.C5], Cities of Many Men (1925) [Main PS3505.H49 C5 and Spec PS3505.H54 C5 1925], Tawny Spain (1927) [Spec DP295.C52], and Charmed Circles (1935) [Main and Spec GT75.C5].  See also: Gilbar, Literary, 72.

Chesnut, Merlyn.  Lompoc resident and author of The Gaviota Land  (SB: Fithian, 1993) [Spec, Printers Z478.86.F583 C448 1993]. 

Chiacos, Elias.  Santa Barbara resident whose works include: An Historical Tour of Santa Barbara (1989) [Spec F869.S45 C45 1989] and Mountain Drive: Santa Barbara’s Pioneer Bohemian Community (SB: Shoreline Press, 1994) [Spec, Printers Z478.86.S475 M68 1994]

Clark, Arthur Miller (1877-1965).  Carpinteria resident and author of From Grove to Cove to Grove: A Brief History of Carpinteria Valley, California (1962) [Special F869.C37 C43]. 

*Clark, Tom (1941-    ).  In Santa Barbara in the 1980s, working with his publisher Black Sparrow; also published with local Cadmus Editions and with Turkey Press.  Works include: Airplanes (1966) [Spec PS3553.L29 A73], The Emperor of the Animals (1967) [Spec PS3553.L29 E52 1967], Bun (1968) with Ron Padgett [Spec PS3553.L29 B85], Stones (1969) [Main and Spec PS3553.L29 S8], Air (1970) [Main and Spec PS3553.L29 A7], Car Wash (c.1970) [Spec PS3553.L29 C37], Neil Young (1970) [Spec PS3553.L29 N53], Green (1971) [Main and Spec PS3553.L29 G7 1971 and Spec, Printers Z239.B345 C5], The No Book (1971) [Spec PS3553.L29 N64], John’s Heart (1972) [Spec PS3553.L29 J6], Back in Boston Again (1972) [Spec PS3553.L29 B32], Smack (1972) [Main and Spec PS3553.L29 S6 1972 and Spec, Printers Z239.B345 C52], Blue (1974) [Main and Spec PS3553.L29 B5 and Spec, Printers Z239.B345 C48], At Malibu (1975) [Main and Spec PS3553.L29 A85], Champagne & Baloney: The Rise and Fall of Finley’s A’s (1976) [Main GV875.O24 C42 1976 and Spec PS3553.L29 C43 1976], Baseball (1976) [Spec PS3553.L29 B38], Fan Poems (1976) [Spec PS3553.L29 F35], 35 (1976) [Spec PS3553.L29 T45], How I Broke In & 6 Modern Masters (1977) [Spec PS3553.L29 H69], When Things Get Tough on Easy Street (SB: Black Sparrow Press, 1978) [Spec PS3553.L29 W5], The World of Damon Runyon (1978) [Main and Spec PS3553.U52 Z6 1978], The Master (1979) [Spec PS3553.L29 M3], Who is Sylvia? (1979) [Main and Spec PS3553.L29 W46 1979], One Last Round for the Shuffler (1979) [Spec PS3553.L29 O54], The Last Gas Station and Other Stories (SB: Black Sparrow Press, 1980) [Spec PS3553.L29 L3], The Great Naropa Poetry Wars (SB: Cadmus, 1980) [Main BQ990.R867 C58 and Spec PS3553.L29 G68 1980], The End of the Line (1980) [Main and Spec PS3553.L29 E53], Nine Songs (Isla Vista: Turkey Press, 1981) [Spec PS3553.L29 N55 1981 and Spec, Printers Z478.86.T87 C53 1981], Journey to the Ulterior (SB, 1981) [Spec PS3553.L29 J68 1981], A Short Guide to the High Plains (SB: Cadmus, 1981) [PS3553.L29 S567], The Rodent Who Came to Dinner (SB, 1981) [Spec PS3553.L29 R63], Under the Fortune Palms (Isla Vista: Turkey Press, 1982) [Spec PS3553.L29 U53 1982], Jack Kerouac (1984) [Spec PS3521.E735 Z62 1984], Paradise Resisted (SB: Black Sparrow Press, 1984) [Spec PS3553.L29 P3 1984], Pacific Melt (1984) [Spec PS3553.L29 P33 1984], Late Returns: A Memoir of Ted Berrigen (1985) [Spec PS3552.E74 Z482 1985], The Exile of Céline (1986) [Main and Spec PS3553.L29 E9 1987], Easter Sunday (1987) [Spec PS3553.L29 E27 1987], Disordered Ideas (1987) [Spec PS3553.L29 D5 1987], Fractured Karma (1990) [Spec PS3553.L29 F7 1990], Charles Olson: The Allegory of a Poet’s Life (1991) [Main PS3529.L655 Z62 1991], Sleepwalker’s Fate (1992) [Spec PS3553.L29 S56 1992], Robert Creeley and the Genius of the American Common Place (1993) [Main PS3505.R43 Z6 1993], Junkets on a Sad Planet: Scenes from the Life of John Keats (1994) [Spec, Printers Z239.B345 C514 1994], Jack Kerouac: A Biography (1995) [Main PS3521.E735 Z62 1995], Like Real People (1995) [Spec, Printers Z239.B345 C5154 1995], Empire of Skin (1997) [Spec, Printers Z239.B345 C493 1997], The Spell: A Romance (2000) [Spec, Printers Z239.B345 C524 2000]. Special has a Tom Clark Archive (Mss 14).  See also: Gilbar, Literary, 159.

Clarke, Anna R.  Santa Barbara resident, co-author of Cheap Thrills: A Survival Guide for Living in Santa Barbara, with Patricia A. Campbell (Canyon Croft Press, 1981) [Spec, Printers Z478.86.C35 C36 1981].

Cleese, John (1939-    ).  Summerland resident, best known for the Monty Python comedy group and the Fawlty Towers television series, but began as a writer and continues to write on non-comedic topics, such as Families, and How to Survive Them (1984) with Robin Skynner, and Life, and How to Survive It (1993) with Robin Skynner [Main HQ2037.S596 1993].

Cleland, Robert Glass (1885-1957).  Author of numerous works on California history, including The Place Called Sespe: The History of a California Ranch, 1940-1953 (1957) [Spec, Wyles F867.C63 1957].  Other works include: A History of California: The American Period (1926) [Spec F861.C57 1926], Pathfinders (1929) [Main and Spec, Wyles F864.C56], The History of Occidental College, 1887-1937 (1937) [Spec LD4191.O3422 C5], The Cattle on a Thousand Hills: Southern California, 1850-1870 (1941) [Main and Spec, Wyles F867.C55], From Wilderness to Empire: A History of California, 1542-1900 (1944) [Main and Spec, Wyles F861.C55], California Pageant (1946) [Main F861.C54], California in Our Time (1947) [Main F866.C6 and Spec F866.C6 1947], California, From the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco (1948) [Main and Spec F865.R6 1948], Apron Full of Gold: The Letters of Mary Jane Megquier from San Francisco, 1849-1856 (1949) [Spec, Wyles F865.M4], Constitution of the State of California (1949) [Main and Spec, Wyles JK8725 1849.A5], This Reckless Breed of Men: The Trappers and Fur Traders of the Southwest (1950) [Main, Coleccion, and Spec, Wyles F592.C5], El Molino Viejo (1950) [Spec, Printers Z239.W35 C544 1950], and The Irvine Ranch of Orange County, 1810-1950 (1953) [Spec, Wyles F868.O6 C57 1953].

Clements, Colin Campbell (1894-1948).  Author of plays and detective stories, often co-written with his wife, Florence Ryerson. They lived in Santa Barbara in early 1930s, then moved to Beverly Hills and became screenwriters. His works include: Plays for Pagans (1924) [Main PS3505.L626 P6 and Spec PS3505.L647 P64 1924] and Sea Plays (1925) [Main PS627.S4 C5]. Co-author of All On a Summer’s Day, and Six Other Short Plays (1928) [Main and Spec PS3535.Y99 A74 1928], Gay Ninety (1934) [Main PS3535.Y99 G3 1934], Ladies Alone (1937) [Main PS3535.Y99 L3], Angels Don’t Marry (1938) [Main PS3535.Y99 A75], June Mad (1939) [Main PS3535.Y99 J8], Through the Night (1940) [Main PS3535.Y5 T5 1940], Glamour Preferred (1941) [Main PS3535.Y99 G5 1941], Harriet (1943) [Main PS3535.Y99 H3], Isn’t Nature Wonderful? (1946), and Strange Bedfellows (1948). See also: Gilbar, Literary, 73.

Cline, Sarah L. (1948-    ).  UCSB professor of History, whose works include Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town (1986) [Main F1221.N3 C58 1986].

*Cloud, Preston (1912-1991).  UCSB Professor of Biogeology and paleontologist.  His works include: Cosmos, Earth, and Man: A Short History of the Universe (1978) [SEL QB981.C66], Oasis in Space: Earth History from the Beginning (1988) [SEL QE26.2 .C56 1988], as well as numerous articles and reports in scholarly periodicals.  UCSB University Archives has his papers (UArch FacP 5).

*Cogley, John (1916-1976).  Associated with CSDI, wrote extensively on religion and ethics. Works include: Report on Blacklisting (1956) [Spec PN1590.B5 C64 1956 and Main PN1993.5.U6 C6], Religion in America: Original Essays on Religion in a Free Society (1958) [Main and Spec BR516.C68], Natural Law and Modern Society (1963) [Spec JC571.C38 1963], Religion in a Secular Age (1968) [Main BL48.C55], Catholic America (1973) [Main and Spec BX1406.2.C57], and A Canterbury Tale: Experiences and Reflections, 1916-1976 (1976) [Main PN4878.C63 A32 and Spec PN4878.C63 A319 1976].  There is substantial related material in the CSDI Collection (Mss 18).

Cohen, Patricia Cline (1946-    ).  UCSB Professor of History and author of several works, including: A Calculating People: The Spread of Numeracy in Early America (1982) [SEL QA27.U5 C63] and the best-selling The Murder of Helen Jewett (1998) [Main HQ146.N7 C65 1998].

Cole, Wiley A. (1893-1982).  Author of Then & Now - The Santa Barbara Yacht Club (1978). 

Collins, Michael.  See Lynds, Dennis.     

Collins, Robert O. (1933-   ).  UCSB Professor Emeritus of History and author of numerous works on African history, including: Egypt & the Sudan (1967) [Main DT77.C6], King Leopold, England, and the Upper Nile, 1899-1909 (1968) [Main DT108.6.C6], and Requiem for the Sudan (1995) [Main DT157.5.B87 1995].

Comfort, Alex (1920-2000).  Came to Santa Barbara as a Visiting Fellow of CSDI, stayed several years.  Author of The Joy of Sex (1972) and other works on sexuality, aging, and death, including: The Song of Lazarus (1945) [Spec PR6005.O388 S6], The Koka Shastra (1964), Come Out to Play (1975) [Spec PR6005.O388 C6 1975], and A Good Age (1976) [Spec QP86.C58 1976].  Special also has related material in its CSDI Collection (Mss 18).  See also: Gilbar, Literary, 141.

Conard, Rebecca (1946-    ).  Santa Barbara resident with a Ph.D. in History from UCSB, author of Santa Barbara: A Guide to El Pueblo Viejo (Capra Press, 1986), with Christopher H. Nelson [Arts Lib NA735.S42 C66 1986 and Spec F868.S23 C65 1986], Places of Quiet Beauty: Parks, Preserves, and Environmentalism (1997) [SEL QH76.5.I8 C66 1997], Benjamin Shambaugh and the Intellectual Foundations of Public History (2002) [Main E175.5.S43 C66 2002]. 

Conrad, Barnaby (1922-    ).  Carpinteria resident, artist, and writer, founder of the Santa Barbara Writers’ Conference.  Served as secretary to Sinclair Lewis in 1947.  Works include: The Innocent Villa (1948) [Spec PS3553.O515 I55 1948], Matador (1952) [Main PS3505.O77525 M3 and Spec PS3553.O515 M37 1952], La Fiesta Brava: The Art of the Bull Ring (1953) [Spec PS3553.O515 F58 1953], Gates of Fear (1957) [Main and Spec GV1107.C625 1957], The Death of Manolete (1958), Dangerfield (1961), The Encyclopedia of Bullfighting (1961), Fun While It Lasted (1969), A Revolting Transaction (1983), Time Is All We Have (1986) [Spec RC564.74.C2 C66 1986], Name Dropping: Tales from My Barbary Coast Saloon (1994), Learning to Write Fiction from the Masters (1996), The World of Herb Caen (1997) [Spec F869.S34 W67 1997], Name Dropping: Tales from My San Francisco Nightclub (1999), and Last Boat to Cadiz (2003) [Spec, Printers Z478.86.C36 C647 2003].  See also: Gilbar, Stories, 10; Gilbar, Literary, 82, 83, 96, 152-153, 218, 261.

Conrad, Les (1934-    ).  Santa Maria resident and activist, author of Desperate Remedies: The Tragedy of Santa Maria, California (SB: Atlas Signs, 1987) [SEL and Spec TD225.S34 C66 1987]. 

Connexions.  Santa Barbara literary arts quarterly, 11 issues, 1985-1988 [Main and Spec PS501.C663].  Jim Cook, Editor; Claire Rabe, Publisher. Featured work by numerous local authors, including Richard de Mille, W.H. Ferry, Lloyd Garrison, Steven Gilbar, Jeff Greenwald, Sheila Golburgh Johnson, Stephan Lackner, Perie Longo, Anne Lowenkopf, Shelly Lowenkopf, Abd al-Hayy Moore, Mary Savage, Robert Sollen, Fred Soltysik, Dean Stewart, Carol Tinker, Kit Tremaine, and Noel Young. 

Cook, James Graham (1925-1966).  Newspaperman, English instructor at SBCC, and author of Remedies and Rackets: The Truth About Patent Medicines Today (1958) [SRLF R730.C58] and The Segregationists (1962) [Main E184.A1 C6].  See also: SB News-Press, Apr. 1965, B5.

Cook, Steve.  Santa Barbara resident and poet, teaches at Westmont College. Poems such as “Not Even a Comma On Anyone’s Page” published in Santa Barbara Review.

*Coombs, Gary.  Author of a number of works on Goleta area history, including: Goleta Depot: The History of a Rural Railroad Station (1982) [SEL and Spec TF302.G64 C66 1982], Mule Car and Trolley: The Story of the Santa Barbara Railway (1984) [Spec TF725.S277 E94 1984], Sentinel at Ellwood: The Barnsdall-Rio Grande Gasoline Station (1985) [Spec F869.G6 C657 1985], Those Were the Days: Landmarks of Old Goleta (1986) [Main and Spec F869.G6 T47 1986], In the Grand Manor: The Story of Devereux Hall (1987) [Spec F869.G6 C655 1987], Beck House: A Goleta Farmhouse Reborn (1988) [Spec F869.G6 C652 1988], Golden Deeds Remembered (1988) with Steve Sullivan [Spec F869.G6 C654 1988], Foothill Homestead: The Lillard-Catlett House (1989) [Spec F869.G6 C6535 1989], and Cathedral Oaks: Last of the Pioneer Schools (1990) [Spec F869.G6 C6525 1990]. Also, director of the South Coast Railroad Museum; Special has their archival collection (SBHC, Mss 18).

Copeland, Leland S. (1886-1973).  Santa Barbara resident and author of Whimsical Rimes (SB: Schauer, 1921) [Spec, Printers Z478.86.S33 C66], Between Two Eternities (SB: Rose Garland Press, 1921) [Spec, Printers Z478.86.R673 C66 1921], and Santa Barbara Songs, 1872-1922 (SB: Schauer, 1922), the first anthology of Santa Barbara poems [Spec PN6110.P7 S377 1922 and Spec, Printers Z478.86.S33 S22 1922].  See also: Gilbar, Literary, 58.

*Corle, Edwin (1906-1956).  Avid book collector and author mainly of works relating to the West.  Moved to Santa Barbara in the 1940s.  Works include: Mojave: A Book of Stories (1934) [Spec PS3505.O79 M6], Fig Tree John (1935) [Main and Spec PS3505.O669 F5 and Spec, Printers Z239.W35 C6 1955], People on the Earth (1937) [Spec PS3505.O79 P4 and Spec PS3505.O79 P4 1950], Burro Alley (1938) [Main and Spec PS3505.O669 B87 1938], Solitaire (1940) [Main and Spec PS3505.O669 S64], Virginia’s Double Life (1940) [Spec PS3505.O669 S64 1940], Desert Country (1941) [Main F786.C675 and Spec F786.C8 1941], Coarse Gold (1942) [Main and Spec PS3505.O669 C63], Listen, Bright Angel (1946) [Main F788.C6 and Spec PS3505.O669 L57 1946], Three Ways to Mecca (1947) [Main and Spec PS3505.O669 T47], John Studebaker, an American Dream (1948) [Main HD9710.U54 S82 and Spec PS3505.O669 J63], In Winter Light (1949) [Main and Spec PS3505.O669 I5], The Royal Highway (El Camino Real) (1949) [Main, Coleccion, and Spec F861.C85], Igor Stravinsky (1949) [Arts and Spec ML410.S8 C6 1949], The Widow (1950) [Spec PS3505.O669 W53], The Gila, River of the Southwest (1951) [Main F817.G5 C6 and Spec PS3505.O669 G54], Billy the Kid (1953) [Main, Spec, and Spec, Wyles PS3505.O669 B54], and Death Valley and the Creek Called Furnace (1962) with photos by Ansel Adams [Spec PS3505.O79 D4 and Spec, Printers Z239.W35 C597 1962].  UCSB Libraries has an annual Corle lecture, named after Edwin and Jean Corle.  Special has several first editions and records of the Corle lectures.

Cornell, Virginia (1936-    ).  Carpinteria resident and newspaper columnist, author and publisher of Doc Susie: The True Story of a Country Physician in the Colorado Rockies (1991) [Spec R154.A58 C67 1991].

Cowles, Roger.  Lived in the area briefly around 1930. Author of The San Felipians (1932), a very negative portrait of Santa Barbara [Spec PS3505.O9556 S25 1932]. 

Craig, Bruce.  Author of Preliminary Historic Resources Study of Eastern Santa Cruz Island (1983). 

Cram, Mildred (1889-1985).  Long-time Montecito resident and writer, with more than 500 short stories, articles, film scripts, novelettes, and novels.  Her works include: Kingdom of Innocents (1940) [Main PS3505.R87 K5], The Promise (1949) [Spec PS3503.R2184 P76 1949], Forever (1954) [Spec PS3505.R2184 F67 1954], and Stranger Things (1970) [Main PS3505.R87 S75].  See also: SB News-Press, Mar. 15, 1964, A16; Gilbar, Literary, 60.

Cramer, Nevill (1922-    ).  Life-long Montecito resident and author of Montecito Boy (1997) [Spec CT275.C8655 A3 1997] and Montecito Boy Abroad (2000) [Spec, Printers Z478.86.F583 C757 2000].

Cranston, Sylvia. See Atkins, Anita.

Crawford, Sharon (1937-    ).  Author of Ganna Walska Lotusland: The Garden and Its Creators (Companion Press, for Ganna Walska Lotusland Foundation, 1996) [SEL and Spec, SB466.U7 L693 1996], and Gardens of Santa Barbara (Easton Gallery, 2000) [Spec F869.S45 C7658 2000].

Crissman, Richard.  Author of The Montecito Collection: Murder, Money or Mayhem in Paradise? (2000) [Spec PS3553.R51975 M65 2000].

Criswell, Marianne.  Author of Canalino (1954), based on conversations between John Peabody Harrington and Juan de Jesus Justo, the last Chumash with knowledge of their myths and stories. [Spec PS3553.R534 C35]  See also: Gilbar, Literary, 3-4.

Crompe, Harry J.  (1922-    ).  Lompoc resident and newspaper columnist, author of The Record: An Editor Remembers (1986) [Spec, Printers Z239.H4817 C76 1986], and Wild and Whacky Lompoc! (1992) [Spec, Printers Z478.86.F583 C764 1992]. 

Cullimore, Clarence C. (1885-1963).  Author of Santa Barbara Adobes (Santa Barbara Book Publishing Co., 1948) [Main and Spec F869.S45 C78 1948] and Old Adobes of Forgotten Fort Tejon (1949) [Main F869.F67 C8 1949].

Cunningham, J. V. [James Vincent] (1911-    ).  Poet, educator, translator, editor, literary critic, visiting professor at UCSB in 1963; late in life spent his winters in Santa Barbara.  His works include: The Helmsman (1942) [Spec, Printers Z239.C56 C8], The Judge is Fury (1947) [Main PS3505.U98 J8], The Quest of the Opal (1950) [Main PS3505.U98 H46 and Spec PS3505.U98 H46 1950], Woe or Wonder: The Emotional Effect of Shakespearean Tragedy (1951) [Main PR2976.C8], Trivial, Vulgar, & Exalted (1957) [Spec PS3505.U98 T75 and Spec, Printers X239.F68 C85], Tradition and Poetic Structure (1960) [Main PR503.C8], The Exclusion of a Rhyme (1960) [Main PS3505.U98 A17], To What Strangers, What Welcome (1964) [Main PS3505.U98 T6 and Spec PS3505.U98 T6 1964], The Journal of John Cardan (1964) [Main PS3505.U98 J6], Latin Lines (Perishable Press, 1965) [Spec, Printers Z239.P387 C862 1965], The Renaissance in England (1966) [Main PR1121.C8], The Problem of Style (1966) [Main PN203.C8], Poems and Epigrams (Perishable Press, 1967) [Spec, Printers Z239.P387 C865 1967], Selected Poems (Perishable Press, 1971) [Spec, Printers Z239.P387 C866 1971], Dickinson: Lyric and Legend (1980) [Spec PS1541.Z5 C85 1980], Let Thy Words Be Few (1986) [Spec PS3505.U435 L4 1986].  See also: SB News-Press, July 5, 1991; Gilbar, Literary, 102.

Cunningham, John M. (1915-    ).  Santa Barbara resident, wrote The Tin Star (screenplay, 1951) [Main PN1997.H4847 1950z], made into the 1952 movie High Noon by Fred Zinnemann.  Brother of Julia Cunningham. See also: SB News-Press, Mar. 15, 1964, A16.

Cunningham, Julia (1916-    ).  Santa Barbara resident and writer of children’s books, including: Candle Tales (1964), Dorp Dead (1965) [Curric. Lab PZ7.C9167 Do], Viollet (1966), Onion Journey (1967) [Spec PS3553.U476 O55 1967], Burnish Me Bright (1970) [Curric. Lab PZ7.C9167 Bu and Spec PS3553.U476 B87 1970], Far in the Day (1972) [Curric. Lab PZ7.C9167 Far], The Treasure is the Rose (1973) [Spec PS3553.U476 T74 1973], Maybe, a Mole (1974) [Curric. Lab PZ10.3.C93 May], Come to the Edge (1977), Flight of the Sparrow (1980), The Silent Voice (1983) [Curric. Lab PZ7.C9167 Si 1983], and the poetry volume The Shadow Heart (SB: Fithian, 1999) [Spec PS3553.U477 S52 1999].  Sister of John M. Cunningham. See also: SB News-Press, Mar. 15, 1964, A17.

Curletti, Rosario Andrea (1913-1986).  Santa Barbara resident and author of Pathways to Pavements: The History and Romance of Santa Barbara Spanish Street Names (1950) [Spec F869.S45 C8], Pathways to Pavements: The History and Romance of Santa Barbara Spanish Street Names, revised edition (1953) [Spec F869.S45 C8 1953], California Indian Claims (microfilm, 1969) [Spec E99.C815 C87 1969], Los Regalitos de Fray Junípero, miniature (SB: Archival Center/Junipero Serra Press, 1987) [Spec, Printers Z239.J845 C87 1987].

*Cushing, Anne Greet (1928-    ).  UCSB Professor Emeritus of French and Italian, also writes as Anne Hyde Greet, often on the works of Guillaume Apollinaire. Works include: Spring Eclogue (1961) [Main and Spec PS3513.R817 S6], Alcools (translation from French; 1965) [Main PQ2601.P6 A7 1965 and Spec PQ2601.P6 A713 1965], Jacques Prevert’s Word Games (1968), Reverdy (translation from French; SB: Unicorn Press, 1968) [Spec, Printers Z478.86.U55 R49], Apollinaire et le livre de peintre (1977) [Main PQ2601.P6 Z6353 and Spec, Printers Z257.A66 G74 1978], Calligrammes (translation from French; 1980), Mirror (translation from French; Ninja Press, 1986) [Spec Printers Z239.N564 A66 1986], and Musk Ox, and Other Poems (SB: Fithian, 1999) [Spec PS3513.R516 M87 1999].  Special has a collection, mostly printed material, donated by Cushing.  See also: Gilbar, Literary, 104


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Daddona, Cynthia (1961-    ).  Santa Barbara resident and author of Diary of a Modern Day Goddess (2000) [Spec BL624.D256 2000].

Dahlberg, Edward (1900-1977).  Novelist, literary critic, and noted curmudgeon, came to Santa Barbara in the early 1970s.  Author of Bottom Dogs (1929) [Spec PR6023.A41Z3 D3 and Spec PS3507.A33 B65], From Flushing to Calvary (1932) [Spec PS3507.A33 F76], Kentucky Blue Grass Henry Smith (1932), Those Who Perish (1934) [Spec PS3507.A33 T46], Can These Bones Live (1941) [Main PS3507.A13 D6 and Spec PS3507.A13 D6 1960], The Flea of Sodom (1950) [Spec PS3507.A33 F5], The Sorrows of Priapus (1957) [Spec PS3507.A33 S7], the autobiographical Because I Was Flesh (1959) [Spec PS3507.A33 Z52 1963], Truth is More Sacred (1961) [Main PR473.D4], Alms for Oblivion, Essays (1964) [Main and Spec PS3507.A33 A75], Cipango’s Hinder Door (1965), Reasons of the Heart (1965) [Spec PS3507.A33 R4], Epitaphs of Our Times: The Letters of Edward Dahlberg (1967) [Main and Spec  PS3507.A33 Z55], The Leafless American (1967) [Main and Spec PS3507.A33 L4], The Carnal Myth (1968) [Main PS3507.A33 C3], Edward Dahlberg: A Tribute (1970) [Main PS3507.A13 Z65], The Confessions of Edward Dahlberg (1971) [Main PS3507.A13 Z52 1971], The Gold of Olphir: Travels, Myths, and Legends in the New World (1972) [Native Am. Studies E77.2.D3 1972], and The Olive of Minerva (1976) [Main PS3507.A33 O43]. See also: Gilbar, Literary, 141, 186-189.

Daily, Marla (1949-    ).  Montecito resident, author of California’s Channel Islands: 1001 Questions Answered (McNally & Loftin, 1987) [Spec F868.S232 D34 1987]. Other works include: Northern Channel Islands Anthology, ed. by Marla Daily Noticias, Occasional Paper #2 (1989) [Main E1.N671 and Spec F869.S23 N63], Santa Cruz Island Anthology (Kimberly Press, 1989) [Spec F868.S23 S3268 1989], A Step Back in Time: Unpublished Channel Islands Diaries (Santa Cruz Island Foundation, 1990) [Spec F868.S232 S74 1990], Chapel of the Holy Cross: 1891-1991 Santa Cruz Island (Santa Cruz Island Foundation, 1991) [Spec F868.S23 C464 1991], Santa Barbara Island (Santa Cruz Island Foundation, 1993) [Main, F868.S23 S3272 1993], Santa Cruz Island: A History and Recollections of an Old California Rancho (1993), with Helen Caire [Spec F868.S23 C33 1993].

Dain, Catherine.  Pen name of Judith Garwood (1941-    ). Ventura resident, mystery writer and Shamus Award nominee, whose books include: Sing a Song of Death (1993), Lay It On the Line (1993), the first Freddie O’Neal mystery; Lament for a Dead Cowboy (1994), Walk a Crooked Mile (1994), Bet Against the House (1995), The Luck of the Draw (1996), Dead Man’s Hand (1997), Angel in the Dark: A New Age Mystery (1999), Death of the Party: A Faith Cassidy Mystery (2000), Darkness at the Door: A New Age Mystery (2001).  See also: Gulbransen, SBNP, 4/9/00.

Dana, Juan Francisco (1838-1936).  Lifelong Nipomo resident whose reminiscences are recorded in The Blond Ranchero: Memories of Juan Francisco Dana (Dawson’s, 1960), a history of Nipomo Ranch [Main and Spec F868.S18 D3]. 

Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. (1815-1882).  Two Years Before the Mast (1840) contains an account of early Santa Barbara, including a description of Alfred Robinson’s 1836 wedding [Spec G540 .D2 1841]. See also: Gilbar, Tales, 21; Gilbar, Literary, 190-92.

Dangerfield, George (1904-1986).  Pulitzer Prize for history for his Era of Good Feelings (1952) [Main and Spec, Bernath E371.D3].  Born in England and educated at Oxford, literary editor of Vanity Fair in the early 1930s.  Married Mary Lou Schott, daughter of Santa Barbarans Max and Alice Schott, and settled here.  Lectured widely and wrote numerous reviews and articles for the New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, and Saturday Review.  Other works include: Bengal Mutiny: The Story of the Sepoy Rebellion (1933) [Spec DS478.D3 1933], The Strange Death of Liberal England (1936) [Main DA576.D3 1936], Victoria’s Heir: The Education of a Prince (1941) [Main DA567.D3], Chancellor Robert R. Livingston of New York (1960) [Main E302.6.L72 D3], The Awakening of American Nationalism, 1815-1828 (1965) [Main E338.D3], Defiance to the Old World: The Story Behind the Monroe Doctrine (1970), and The Damnable Question: A Study in Anglo-Irish Relations (1976) [Main DA962.D27].  See also: Gilbar, Literary, 106-107.

Daniel, John M. (1941-    ).  Poet and owner of Santa Barbara-based Daniel & Daniel Publishing, and its three imprints: John Daniel and Company Books, Fithian Press, and Perseverance Press. Works include: Structure, Style, and Truth: Elements of the Short Story (SB: Fithian, 1998) [Spec PN3373.D26 1998) and Yellow Bricks & Ruby Slippers (2002) [Spec PS509.F3 Y45 2002]. See also: Gilbar, Stories, 10.

Daniels, Douglas Henry.  UCSB professor of Asian American Studies, Black Studies, and History. Author of Pioneer Urbanites: A Social and Cultural History of Black San Francisco (1980) [Main and Black Studies F869.S39 N43] and Lester Leaps In: The Life and Times of Lester “Pres” Young (2002) [Black Studies ML419.Y7 D36 2002].

*Davidson, Eugene (1902-2002).  Editor and historian of the Third Reich. Special has an endowment in his name and his collection of books on Nazi Germany in the Eugene and Suzette Davidson Collection. Works include: The Death and Life of Germany: An Account of the American Occupation (1959) [Main and Spec DD257.D33], The Trial of the Germans (1966) [Spec D804.G42 D38 1966], The Nuremberg Fallacy: War and War Crimes Since World War II (1973) [Main and Spec D843.D27], The Making of Adolf Hitler (1977) [Main and Spec DD247.H5 D38], The Unmaking of Adolf Hitler (1996) [Main and Spec DD247.H5 D384 1996], Reflections on a Disruptive Decade: Essays on the Sixties (2000) [Main and Spec CB427.D34 2000] and The Narrow Path of Freedom, and Other Essays (2002).     

Davidson, Harold G. (1912-    ).  Author of several works on artist Edward Borein, including: Edward Borein, Cowboy Artist; the Life and Works of John Edward Borein, 1872-1945 (1974) [Arts and Spec, Wyles N6537.B63 D38 1974], Edward Borein, Artist of the Old West (1984) [Spec, Wyles ND1839.B66 A4 1984], Edward Borein, the Update: the Watercolors, Etchings, and Drawings (SB: H.G. Davidson, 1991).

Davis, Myrna.  Author of Almost Heaven: A Walk Through Old Summerland (McNally & Loftin, 1997) with Mary Holzhauer [Spec F869.S83 D38 1997].

Davis, William Heath (1822-1909).  Visited Santa Barbara in the 1840s; author of Sixty Years in California (1889) [Spec and Spec, Wyles F861.D38].  See also: Gilbar, Literary, 16.

Davison, Grace L. (1875-1967).  Longtime Santa Ynez Valley resident. Works include: The Gates of Memory (Santa Ynez Valley News, 1955) [Main F868.S35 D3 and Spec F868.S35 D3 1955] and Beans for Breakfast (Santa Ynez Valley News, 1956) [Spec CT275.D287 A3 1956]. 

Days, Mary Louise (1939-    ).  Santa Barbara resident and author of Histories of Individual Parks: City of Santa Barbara (SB: City Planning Division, Community Development Dept., 1977) [Main and Spec F869.S45 H597 1977]. Other works include Plaza de la Guerra Reconsidered (2002) [Spec F869.S45 P539 2002].

Debin, David (1942-    ).  Montecito resident and mystery writer, whose sleuth is Albie Marx.  Works include: Nice Guys Finish Dead (1992) [corrected proof, Spec PS3554.E1762 N529 1992], The Big O (1994) [Spec PS3554.E1762 B54 1994], and Murder Live at Five (1995) [Spec PS3554.E1762 M87 1995]. Has taught writing classes at SBCC and Antioch University in Santa Barbara. See also: Gilbar, Stories, 10.

De Canio, Carol B.  Santa Barbara resident and poet, “You Who Are In Our Stories” published in Santa Barbara Review.

Decker, Maxi D.  See Dickinson, Maxwell.

DeConde, Alexander (1920-    ).  UCSB Professor Emeritus of History and author of numerous works, mainly on American foreign policy, including: Herbert Hoover’s Latin-American Policy (1951) [Main F1418.D38], Isolation and Security: Ideas and Interests in Twentieth Century American Foreign Policy (1957) [Main E744.D4], Entangling Alliance: Politics and Diplomacy Under George Washington (1958) [Main E311.D4], New Interpretations in American Foreign Policy (1961) [Main Z6465.U6 D4 1961], The American Secretary of State: An Interpretation (1962) [Main JK853.D4], A History of American Foreign Policy (1963) [Main, Spec, and Spec, Bernath E183.7.D4], The Quasi-War: The Politics and Diplomacy of the Undeclared War with France 1797-1801 (1966) [Main E323.D4], Decisions for Peace: the Federalist Era (1970), Student Activism: Town and Gown in Historical Perspective (1971) [Main LB3610.D4], Half Bitter, Half Sweet: An Excursion Into Italian-American History (1971) [Main E184.I8 D4], American Diplomatic History in Transformation (1976) [Main and Spec, Bernath E183.7.D396], This Affair of Louisiana (1976) [Main and Spec, Bernath E333.D42], Ethnicity, Race, and American Foreign Policy: A History (1992) [Asian Am. Studies and Spec, Bernath E184.A1 D29 1992], Presidential Machismo: Executive Authority, Military Intervention, and Foreign Relations (2000) [Main E176.1.D42 2000], Gun Violence in America: The Struggle for Control (2001) [Main HV7436.D43 2001].

De Garcia, Erin Graffy.  Local society columnist and author of: How to Santa Barbara (SB: Kieran, 1998) [Printers Z478.86.K53 G73 1998], and How to Santa Barbara: An Advanced Course (SB: Kieran, 2000) [Spec, Printers Z478.86.K53 G733 2000].

Dejeans, Elizabeth.  Author of numerous short stories, novelettes, screenplays, and novels; lived in Santa Barbara before her death in 1928. Works include: Winning Chance (1909), Heart of Desire (1910), Far Triumph (1911), House of Thane (1913), Life-Builders (1915), Tiger’s Coat (1917), Nobody’s Child (1918), Moreton Mystery (1920), Double House (1924), Winning Game (1925), and Mansions of Unrest (1926). See also: Gilbar, Literary, 63.

Demaris, Ovid (1919-    ).  Biographer and non-fiction writer of works primarily relating to crime and criminals, lived in Santa Barbara during the 1960s. Works include: Captive City (1960) [Main HV6795.C4 D45], The Enforcer (1960), Lucky Luciano (1960), Candyleg (1961), The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case: The True Story of the Crime That Shocked the World (1961), The Dillinger Story (1961), The Green Felt Jungle (1963) with Ed Reid [Main HV6721.L3 R4], Jacky Ruby (1968) with Gary Wills [Main E842.9.W5], America the Violent (1970) [Main HN57.D44], Poso del Mundo: Inside the Mexican-American Border, from Tijuana to Matamoras (1970) [Main HN113.5 .D45], The Overlord: A Novel (1972), Dirty Business: The Corporate-Political Money-Power Game (1974) [Main HD2795.D45], The Director: An Oral Biography of J. Edgar Hoover (1975) [Main HV7911.H6 D45 1975], Brothers in Blood: The International Terrorist Network (1977) [Main HV6431.D45], My Story: Judith Exner as told to Ovid Demaris (1977) [Spec CT275.E97 A35], The Last Mafioso: The Treacherous World of Jimmy Fratianno (1981), The Vegas Legacy (1983), How Greed, Corruption, and the Mafia Turned Atlantic City Into the Boardwalk Jungle (1986) [Main HV6721.A8 D45 1986], Ricochet (1988), and J. Edgar Hoover: As They Knew Him (1994).  See also: Gilbar, Literary, 133; SB News-Press, Mar. 15, 1964, A16.

*de Mille, Richard (1922-    ).  Santa Barbara resident and author of works on Carlos Castaneda, such as Castaneda’s Journey (1976) [Spec F1221.Y3 C374], and The Don Juan Papers: Further Castaneda Controversies (SB: Ross-Erikson, 1980) [Main, Coleccion, and Spec F1221.Y3 C375]. Other works include: Introduction to Scientology (1953), Put Your Mother on the Ceiling: Children’s Imagination Games (1955), Project ECHO (1969) with R.P. Barthol, Two Qualms & a Quirk (1973) [Main PS3554.E47 T86, Spec PS3554.E473 T96 1973, and Spec, Printers Z478.86.C36 D44], and My Secret Mother: Lorna Moon (1998) [Main PS3525.O498 Z64 1998].  Special has his papers relating to Castaneda (Mss 20).

Denton, Daniel J.  Publisher of Santa Barbara Magazine throughout the 1990s, and editor from 1991 to 1995.

De Witt, Jack (1900-1981).  Long-time Santa Barbara resident and screenwriter, whose credits include A Man Called Horse (1970).  Author of Murder on Shark Island (1941), Producing Industrial Films: From Fade-In to Fade-Out (1968) [SEL TR894.D4] and Man in the Wilderness (1971) [Spec PS3507.E8847 M35 1971], made into a 1971 film by Richard C. Sarafian. See also: Gilbar, Literary, 155.

Dickinson, Maxwell (a.k.a. Maxi D. Decker).  Works include Big Lick Walking Horses (1992) [Spec PS3554.I3248 B53 1992] and Bandana Country: Sixty Ways to Use a Cowboy’s Bandana (1993) [Spec TT667.5.D525 1993]. Special has both, as gift from Dickinson, via David Myrick.

Dillman, Bradford (1930-    ).  Actor and author of Are You Anybody? An Actor’s Life (SB: Fithian Press, 1997) [Spec, Printers Z478.86.F583 D545 1997], and the novel That Air Forever Dark (SB: Fithian, 2001) [Spec, Printers Z478.86.F583 D5457 2001].

Doane, Michael (1952-    ).  Montecito resident, whose works include: The Legends of Jesse Dark (1984) [Main PS3554.O143 L4 1984], The Surprise of Burning (1988) [Main PS3554.O143 S87 1988], Six Miles to Roadside Business (1990) [Main PS3554.O143 S59 1990], City of Light (1992), Bullet Heart (1994) [Main PS3554.O143 B85 1994].  See also: Gilbar, Literary, 157.

Doran, Adelaide LeMert (1908-1987).  Author whose works include: The Ranch That Was Robbins’: Santa Catalina Island, A Source Book (1963) [Main and Spec F868.L8 D6], Pieces of Eight Channel Islands: A Bibliographical Guide and Source Book (1980) [SEL F868.S232 D6 and Spec Z1262.C46 D67].

*Dorbin, Sanford (1932-    ).  Poet, author of works on Charles Bukowski, editor of Schist magazine. Worked in the UCSB Library. Also, contributor to Spectrum, the UCSB student literary magazine, in the 1960s. Special has his papers (Mss 21), which includes correspondence concerning other well-known poets and writers. His works include: The Goodbye (1965) [Spec PS3554.O6 G65 1965], The Art of Legerdemain (1966) [Printers Z478.86.F57 H88 1966], Epithalamium: The Day That Does Not Die (1967) [Spec PS3554.O6 E65 1967 and Printers Z478.86.Y68 D67 1967], Family Life and Others (1967) [Spec PS3554.O6 F3 and Printers Z478.86.U55 D67], Autumn Nightscape (1967) [Spec PS3554.O6 A88 1967], No ha fallada: To Che Guevara (1968) [Spec PS615.N64 1968], A Bibliography of Charles Bukowski (1969) [PS3552.U4 Z99 1969 and Printers Z239.B345 D67], Persona: Image/Mirror Image (1969) [Spec PS3554.O6 P47 1969], Poem (1969) [Spec PS3554.O6 P63 1963], Charles Bukowski and the Little Mag/Small Press Movement (1970) [Spec PS3552.U4 Z64], The Ruby Woods: Poems (1971) [Main and Spec PS3554.O6 R83], Bukowski (1973) [Printers Z231.5.L5 S43 v.4, no.4], Eleven Poems (1978) [Spec PS3554.O6 E43], Drafting the Budweiser Truck (1986) [Spec PS3554.O6 D73 1986], Minimally Speaking (1987) [Spec PS3554.O6 M55 1987], Night Lights (1988) with Rose Dorbin [Spec PS3554.O6 N534 1988], Never Enough Light: New Selected Poems, 1966-1994 (1995) [Spec PS3554.O6 N49 1995], and Saying Goodbye to Babylon (2001) [Spec PS3554.O6 S29 2001].

Dorra, Mary Tonetti.  Santa Barbara resident whose works include: Beautiful American Vegetable Gardens (1997) and Beautiful American Rose Gardens (1999).  Regular contributor to Santa Barbara Magazine with the “Private Worlds” feature on stately homes.

Dorrell, Torrie (1960-    ).  Santa Barbara resident, magazine editor, and freelance writer. Health and fitness related articles such as “Shaping Up in Santa Barbara” published in Santa Barbara Magazine.

Doulton, Harold Keeney (1925-2001).  Owner of the Miramar and author of I Remember (Los Olivos: Olive Press, 1999), a memoir of growing up in Santa Barbara, working on the local ranchos, and meeting everyone from Ronald Reagan to Charles Manson [Spec CT275.D8677 A3 1999].

*Downey, William L. [Bill] (1922-1994).  The first black reporter for the Santa Barbara News-Press, wrote an outdoors column that featured the adventures of his “Uncle Russell;” popular teacher at Santa Barbara City College and author of several novels, mostly revolving around African Americans.  Also associated with SB Writers’ Conference.  Special Collections’ California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives has his papers. Works include Tom Bass, Black Horseman (1975) [SEL, Black Studies, and Spec SF287.D68], Black Viking (1981) [PS3554.O9329 B53 1981], Uncle Sam Must Be Losing the War: Black Marines of the 51st (1982) [Black Studies and Spec D811.D663 1982], Right Brain – Write On! [Spec PN171.W74 D68 1984]. See also: Gilbar, Literary, 131-132, 153; SB News-Press, May 31, 1986, D24.

Dowty, Karen Jones (1944-    ).  Ventura resident and author of A Visitor’s Guide: The California Channel Islands (1981) [Spec F868.S232 D69 1981]. 

Dresser, Davis (1904-1977), a.k.a. Brett Halliday.  Resident of Santa Barbara after 1962, until his death. Author of westerns and the Michael Shayne detective series.  Works include: Mardi Gras Madness (1934), Test of Virtue (1934), Love is a Masquerade (1935), Ten Toes Up (1935), Virgin’s Holiday (1935), Stolen Sins (1936), Ladies of Chance (1936), Let’s Laugh at Love (1937), Million Dollar Madness (1937), Once to Every Woman (1938), Romance for Julie (1938), Satan Rules the Night (1938), Temptation (1938), Dividend on Death (1939), Girl Alone (1939), The Private Practice of Michael Shayne (1940), Death Rides the Pecos (1940), The Uncomplaining Corpses (1940), Gun Smoke on the Mesa (1941), Lynch-Rope Law (1941), Michael Shayne Takes Over (1941), Bodies Are Where You Find Them (1941), The Corpse Came Calling (1942), Blood on the Black Market (1943), Blood on Biscayne Bay (1946), Michael Shayne’s Triple Mystery (1948), Blood on the Stars (1948), Murder and the Married Virgin (1948), Rio Kid Justice (1950), This is It, Michael Shayne (1950), Charlie Dell (1952), Death Is a Lovely Dame (1954), She Woke to Darkness (1954), Death Has Three Lives (1955), Heads You Lose (1956), Shoot the Works (1957), Murder and the Wanton Bride (1958), Date With a Dead Man (1959), Die Like a Dog (1959), Murder Takes No Holliday (1960), Dolls Are Deadly (1960), Homicidal Virgin (1960), Killers From the Keys (1961), The Careless Corpse (1961), Murder by Proxy (1962), Never Kill a Client (1962), Pay-Off in Blood (1962), The Body Came Back (1963), The Corpse That Never Was (1963), Too Friendly, Too Dead (1963), A Redhead for Mike Shayne (1964), and The Violent World of Michael Shayne (1965).  See also: Gilbar, Literary, 132-133, 193-195.

Driggers, James (1952-    ).  Santa Barbara-based playwright, freelance writer, and chef; regular contributor to Santa Barbara Magazine with articles such as “A Gringo’s Guide to Mexican Food.”

Dudley, Stephen B.  Author of The Bixby Family Guide (1987). 

Dugan, Judy Magee (1951-    ).  Santa Barbara resident and author of Santa Barbara: Highlights and History (SB: Jama Books, c. 1979) [Spec F869.S45 D83].

Dunshee, Charlotte (1901-1973). Ventura resident and author of Through the Ages (1936) [Spec PS3507.U926 T5 and Spec, Printers Z239.P53 D86 1936]. Special also has some manuscript material (Spec SC 88).

Dunham, Roger C. (1944-    ).  Santa Barbara resident and suspense writer. Spy Sub: A Top Secret Mission to the Bottom of the Pacific [SEL VB231.U54 D86 1996].  See also: Gilbar, Stories, 10.

Dunn, Jerry.  Montecito resident and freelance writer. Frequent contributor to Santa Barbara Magazine, and that magazine’s editor from 1977 through 1979.

Dye, Lee.  Author of Blowout at Platform A: The Crisis That Awakened a Nation (1971), about the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill [Main and Spec HC110.E5 D9].


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Eastlake, William (1917-1997).  Author who lived in Isla Vista for a while in the early 1970s and was a friend of Robert Easton. Works include: Portrait of an Artist with Twenty-Six Horses (1963) [Main PS3555.A7 P6], Castle Keep (1965), made into a 1969 film by Sydney Pollack [Main and Spec PS3555.A7 C37], The Bamboo Bed (1969) [Main PS3555.A7 B34 and Spec PS3555.A7 B36 1969], A Child’s Garden of Verses for the Revolution (1970) [Main PS3555.A7 C5], Dancers in the Scalp House (1975), The Long, Naked Descent into Boston (1977) [Main PS3555.A7 L6], Prettyfields: A Work in Progress (SB: Capra Press, 1987) [Spec PS3555.A7 P7 1987], and Lyric of the Circle Heart: The Bowman Family Trilogy (1996) [Main PS3555.A7 L97 1996]. See also: Gilbar, Literary, 142.

Easton, Ellen.  Santa Barbara resident and owner of the Easton Gallery. Works include: Ranchos: Santa Barbara Land Grant Ranches (Easton Gallery, 1996) [Arts AEC-82905 and Spec F868.S23 R353 1996], The Oak Group: The First Ten Years (Easton Press, 1996), Bjorn Rye: Paintings (Easton Gallery, 1998). 

*Easton, Robert Olney (1915-1999).  Local writer of western fiction and non-fiction, as well as Black Tide (1972), an account of the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill [SEL GC1556.E2 and Spec GC1556.E2 1972].  His local novel, The Hearing (1964), is set at Santa Barbara City College [Main PS3509.A7575 H42 1964 and Spec PS3555.A83 H4].  Other works include: The Happy Man (1943) [Main PS3555.A83 H36, Spec PS3509.A7575 H36, and Spec, Printers Z478.86.C36 E277 1993], Lord of Beasts (1961) with D. MacKenzie Brown [SEL, Spec, and Spec, Wyles SK17.J6 E3], Guns, Gold, and Caravans (SB: Capra Press 1978) [Spec, Wyles CT275.S3455 E2 and Spec, Printers Z478.86.C36 E276 1978], This Promised Land (1982), about the Chumash [Spec PS3509.A7575 T5], Power and Glory (SB: Capra Press, 1989) [Spec PS3509.A7575 P69 1989 and Spec, Printers Z478.86.C36 E2787 1989], Life and Work (1990) with David Russell [Spec PS3509.A7575 Z465 1990], Love and War: Pearl Harbor through V-J Day (1991), based on correspondence with his wife during WWII [Spec PS3509.A7575 Z482 1991], and Blood and Money (1998) [Spec PS3509.A7575 B58 1998].  Special also has a large collection of his papers (SBHC Mss 6).  See also: Gilbar, Literary, 4, 108, 142, 225, 231.

Eaton, Margaret Holden (1876-1947).  Santa Barbara resident and author of Diary of a Sea Captain’s Wife: Tales of Santa Cruz Island (McNally & Loftin, West, 1980) [Main and Spec F868.S23 E38 1980]. 

Ebenstein, William (1910-1976).  Educator and author of numerous works on political philosophy, including Great Political Thinkers: Plato to the Present (1960) [Main JA36.E2 1960], Modern Political Thought, the Great Issues (1960) [Main JA36.E24 1960], and American Democracy in World Perspective (1967) [Spec JK261.A66].  See also: SB News-Press, Mar. 15, 1964, A17.

Ehrlich, Gretel (1964-    ).  Grew up in Santa Barbara, also lived in and wrote about Wyoming.  Friend of Noel Young, who published her early work.  Later returned to Santa Barbara and much of A Match to the Heart (1994) is set here [PS3555.H72 Z475 1994].  Also wrote of her travels in Questions of Heaven: The Chinese Journeys of an American Buddhist (1997), and Cowboy Island: Farewell to a Ranching Legacy (Santa Cruz Island Foundation, 2000), about Santa Rosa Island [Main and Spec F868.S23 E37 2000].  Other works include: Geode / Rock Body [Spec PS3555.H72 G46 1970 and Spec, Printers Z478.86.C367 E37 1970], To Touch the Water (1981) [Main PS3555.H72 T6], The Solace of Open Spaces (1985) [Main PS3555.H72 Z476 1985], Heart Mountain (1988) [Asian Am. Studies and Spec PS3555.H72 H4 1988], Drinking Dry Clouds (1991) [Spec PS3555.H72 D75 1991], Arctic Heart (1992) [Main and Spec, Printers Z478.86.C36 E37 1992], Islands, the Universe, Home (1992) [Main PS3555.H72 I8 1992], Life in the Saddle (1995) [Spec SF301.L72 1995], Yellowstone: Land of Fire and Ice (1995) [Spec QH105.W8 E48 1995], John Muir: Nature’s Visionary (2000) [Spec QH31.M9 E47 2000], This Cold Heaven (2001) [SEL and Spec G743.E47 2001], and No Boundaries (2002). See also: Gilbar, Literary, 158-159.

*Ellerbe, Paul (1886-1968).  Santa Barbara resident, author of short stories, novelettes, articles, verses, and essays.  Special has some papers (Mss 151), including carbon-copy typescript of The Winds Are My Shelter: The Autobiography of a Comparatively Free Man (no published holdings found).  See also: SB News-Press, Mar. 15, 1964; Gilbar, Literary, 83, 112, 114, 196-198.

Ellis, Anne (1875-1938).  Author of three autobiographical works; came to Santa Barbara in 1933 as an invalid and wrote last book, Sunshine Preferred (1934) [Spec CT275.E38515 A33 1984].  Earlier works include: The Life of an Ordinary Woman (1929) [Main and Spec, Wyles CT275.E38515 A3] and Plain Anne Ellis (1931) [Spec CT275.384 A32]. See also: Gilbar, Literary, 72.

Ely, Ron (1938-    ).  Actor and writer of suspense novels set in Santa Barbara, such as Night Shadows (1994) [Spec PS3555.L93 N5 1994], and East Beach (1995) [Spec PS3555.L93 E27 1995].  See also: Gilbar, Literary, 157; Gilbar, Stories, 10.

Emmons, Robert (1934-    ). Montecito resident and poet. Works include: Other Places, Other Times (1973), Love and Other Minor Tragedies (1980), and The Road to Paradise (SB: Capra Press, 2003) [Spec, Printers Z478.86.C36 E45 2003].

Enders, Jody (1955-    ).  UCSB professor of French, whose works include Rhetoric and the Origin of Medieval Drama (1992) [Main PN1751.E5 1992], The Medieval Theater of Cruelty: Rhetoric, Memory, Violence (1999) [Main PN1751.E49 1999], and Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends (2002) [Main PN1751.E48 2002].

Engelhardt, Zephyrin (1851-1934).  Priest and author of numerous works on missions and Franciscans in California and elsewhere in the West, including: Santa Barbara Mission (1923) [Main and Spec F864.E65], San Buenaventura: The Mission by the Sea (1930) [Main F864.E586], Mission La Concepcion Purisima de Maria Santisima (Schauer Printing Studio, Mission Santa Barbara, 1932) [Main F864.E47 and Spec F864.E562], and Mission Santa Ines, Virgen y Martir, and Its Ecclesiastical Seminary (1932) [Spec F864.E569, Spec F869.S68 E54 1986, and Spec, Printers Z478.86.K54 1986]. Other works include: The Franciscans in California (1897) [Main BX3609.C2 E5 and Spec BX3609.A6 E5], The Franciscans in Arizona (1899) [Spec BX3609.A6 E5], The Missions and Missionaries of California (1908) [Main, Spec, and Spec, Wyles F864.E5 1908], The Holy Man of Santa Clara (1909) [SRLF and Spec BX4705.C34 E6], San Diego Mission (1920) [Main and Coleccion F864.E53], San Luis Rey Mission (1921) [Spec F864.E6], San Juan Capistrano Mission (1922) [Main and Coleccion F864.E553], San Francisco or Mission Dolores (1924) [Main, Coleccion, and Spec F864.E593], Un Misionero Santo (1924) [Coleccion and Spec BX4705.C34 E618], San Fernando Rey (1927) [Coleccion and Spec F864.E575], San Miguel Arcangel (1929) [Main F864.E56 and Spec F864.E62 1929], Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad (1929) [Main F864.E56], and San Antonio de Padua (1929) [Main F864.E56, Coleccion and Spec F864.E584], Mission San Juan Bautista (1931) [Main and Spec F864.E567], Mission San Luis Obispo in the Valley of the Bears (1933) [Main and Spec F864.E568], Mission San Carlos Borromeo (1934) [Main, Coleccion, and Spec F864.E563], and San Gabriel Mission and the Beginnings of Los Angeles (1986) [Main, Coleccion, and Spec F864.E594].

Esau, Katherine (1898-1997).  UCSB Professor of Plant Biology, whose works include: Plant Anatomy (1953) [Spec QK671.E8], The Anatomy of Seed Plants (1960) [Spec QK641.E8 1977], Plants, Viruses, and Insects (1961) [Spec QK871.E7], Vascular Differentiation in Plants (1965) [Spec QK641.E79], and Viruses in Plant Hosts: Form, Distribution, and Pathologic Effects (1968) [SEL and Spec SB736.E77]. Special has a collection of her papers.

*Eschelbach, Claire John (1929-    ).  First Head of UCSB Special Collections and author of Aldous Huxley: A Bibliography, 1916-1959 (1961) [Main Z8430.2.E7 and Spec PR6015.U9 Z99 1961].  Special has material relating to writing of the book.

Eunson, Dale (1904-2002).  Novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who retired to Santa Barbara.  Works include: Homestead (1935); All Women Have Secrets (1939), a film from Paramount Pictures based on a Eunson story; Guest in the House (1942), a play, with Hagar Wilde, from a story by his wife Katherine Albert; The Day They Gave Babies Away (1947), made into the 1958 movie All Mine to Give by Allen Reisner [Spec PS3509.U5 D3 1947]; Up On the Rim (1970); and Philip’s Chair (1988) [Main PS3509.U5 P47 1988].  See also: Gilbar, Literary, 155.

Evans, Robert.  Ventura resident and poet, with “A 20th Century Don Quixote” published in the Santa Barbara Review.

*Exner, Richard (1929-    ).  UCSB Professor Emeritus of German, Germanic, Slavic & Semitic Studies, translator, critic, essayist, and poet. Works include: Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s “Lebenslied”; eine Studie (1964) [Main PT2617.O47 Z67], A Personal Prayer at Years End (1972) [Printers Z239.H49 E95 1972], and Alive or Dead: Poems (1975), a translation of Heinz Piontek [Spec PT2676.I55 T613 and Printers Z239.U315 P55 1975], Law and Disorder (1979), a translation of Günter Bruno Fuchs [Spec, Printers Z239.U315 F83 1979], Fast Ein Gesprach: Gedichte (1980) [Main PT2665.X54 F37], Mit Rauchloser Flamme: Gedichte (1982) [Main PT2665.X54 M5], On the Limits of Knowing the Holocaust (1994) [Main and Spec PN56.H55 E895 1984], Aus Lettern Ein Floss: Gedichte (1985) [Main PT2665.X54 A88 1985], Stätten: Gedicht-Zyklus (1988) [Spec PT2665.X54 S73 1988], Ein Halber Himmel (1988) [Main PT2665.X54 H34], Die Nacht (1990) [Spec PT2665.X54 N32 1990], Gedichte 1953-1991 (1994) [Main PT2665.X54 A17 1994], and Die Zunge als Lohn: Gedichte 1991-1995 (1996) [Main PT2665.X54 Z43 1996].  Special also has a large collection of his papers (UArch FacP 12).  See also: Gilbar, Literary, 104.


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