The library is at Big Sur, California, on State Highway 1, three hours drive south from San Francisco. From L.A., going north, the total drive time is about 6 1/2 hours. Miller fell in love with the rugged, isolated region on his first visit in 1944, and promptly decided to move there. Upon his arrival Miller wrote, “Here I will find peace. Here I shall find the strength to do the work I was made to do.”