Reviews   “I think the book is an important contribution  to our knowledge of the sixties. I’m deeply impressed." — Ann Marie Maxwell, Beat Artist, Companion to Neal Cassady   "It's a fascinating tour of the west coast hip as it exploded into our nation’s consciousness. ...This is how it was before there was a Silicon Valley and they paved the whole damn thing." —James Stauffer Poet, Beat Historian, and co-editor of The Fool       "A 60’s coming-of-age story ... made vital, personal, and real by Rogers’ beautifully expressed voice of experience. Against a background of the creative, receding Beats and rising 60’s idealism, the book is poignant with the pain of rejection, the tentative search for love and acceptance. I was drawn in by the lovely and almost hypnotic poetry of words and sensations. " — Dale Aycock, Author, Starspinner           "Lolita meets Holden Caulfield meets Fanny Hill. Set in the late sixties in Northern California and Mexico where life was changing, feminism was awakening and discovering its independence from patriarchy.  A refreshing look at a time when everything changed. A time when we found ourselves. So sweet and yet so frightening, this discovery of life." — Thomas Hurst, Author, Tending To Jimmy and Magnolias       Berkeley Based Book Harkens Back In Time by Mary Ann Cook, Los Gatos Weekly Times   "BORN IN BERKELEY: Born in Berkeley - part memoir, part fiction - is set mainly in that small cavity of time between the Beat era and the emergence of the hippies, roughly 1965 - 68. The book is just out from Inkling Press of Menlo Park and it was written by Lynn Rogers of Los Gatos. It's a coming-of age-story of protagonist Caroline Ryder, in rebellion from the materialism of growing up in the '50s, who shakes off her family's affluence and takes to the road. On the way she encounters real-life characters Neal Cassady and Ken Kesey. " Read the rest of this review...     Related Articles & Links        Beat Generation Scrapbook UNEARTHED TREASURES CAPTURE THE ESSENCE OF A SEMINAL GROUP by Nora Villagrán, Mercury News Villagrán interviewed Lynn Rogers as part of her coverage of The Beats Roadshow, an exhibit recently housed at the Art Museum of Los Gatos. The museum offered signed copies of Born In Berkeley in connection with the exhibit. Read the article for Lynn's comments and other useful information on this influential group of artists, authors, and adventurers.    Read the Mercury News' article View Additional Photographs       Beat artist Annie Maxwell reminisces with Born In Berkeley author Lynn Rogers at the reception for the Brand New Beats Roadshow. Photograph by Paul Troia     The Beat Goes On from Steppin' Out   "The recently renovated Art Museum of Los Gatos was the setting Sept. 15 for a lively reception for the Brand New Beats Roadshow, the current exhibit of Beat Generation memorabilia from the collection of Jasmine Stockett, who inherited the assorted letters, posters, signed books, original art and ephemera from her father, William Arthur Stockett, otherwise known as 'The Colonel.' Guests particularly enjoyed mingling on the new patio with its fountain." Read More        The Beats: On the road again  By Dale Bryant  "Jasmine Stockett remembers her father, William Arthur Stockett, as difficult, odd and undeniably brilliant. As a child, she saw him infrequently, but says she can still see him walking up Columbus Street in San Francisco "with a black felt cowboy hat the size of a file cabinet perched precariously on his head, a carry-on-size piece of luggage in one hand and an open book in the other." Jasmine's father, known to his friends as "the Colonel," was a well-known Bay Area book dealer and collector. The friends who hung out with the Colonel included the likes of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The Colonel was a Beat. " Read The Rest of The Article           "Without Neal Cassady, the Beat Generation would never have happened. "  -- from the online Beat Museum   Related Photographs      Additional Images from the Brand New Beats Roadshow, the San Francisco Summer of Love 2002, the Pacific Heights reunion and other B.I.B. related events.   60's Art     Browse this online collection of Lynn Rogers' own original artwork for additional images of the Merry Pranksters and other characters from her days in Berkeley and "on the road".       Home   Synopsis  Reviews    Excerpts Buy The Book   Art Gallery    Articles & Links Photos   Lynn Rogers 2002. All rights reserved. This site was custom designed by Earth Designs. Interested in finding out how you too could access  affordable website design and hosting?  Click here.