Stardust in L.A... Literary greats in San Francisco... Movie moguls and musicians, admirals and eccentrics, rogues and lawmen - all these "permanent" Californians are chronicled in piquant detail as Judi Culbertson and Tom Randall tour the most interesting cemeteries of Los Angeles and San Francisco, as well as Carmel, Salinas, and San Diego. They provide 11 walking tour maps and 100 stunning photos of statuary; gravestones and mausoleums, gardens, and plaques with such goodbyes as "Too bad, we had fun". In the City of Angels, the authors cover the lives of such superstars as Marilyn Monroe, Rudolph Valentine, Lenny Bruce, Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Rite Haworth, W.C. Fields, and Spencer Tracy. They even explore the lives and gravesites of such recent arrivals and Natalie Wood, John Huston, Groucho Marx, and the impeccably flamboyant Liberace. Indeed, the authors leave few stones unturned in their quest for Hollywood's celebrities. To the north, in San Francisco and environs, the authors encounter William Randolph Hearst, Wyatt Earp, Levi Strauss, Frank Norris, and many more. They tour the homes of Luther Burbank, John Muir, and Jack London. The history of California, and its two cultures is uniquely revealed in these witty, memorializing pages... Permanent Californians is Culbertson and Randall's third book on the cemeteries of the world's great cities.