Richard Brautigan wrote A Confederate General From Big Sur, a book about his experiences in Big Sur, published in 1964

Big Sur (novel) is a 1962 novel by Jack Kerouac

Big Sur is a region of the central California coast. Other uses include the following:

Henry Miller wrote a novel called Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

Buckethead has a song titled "Big Sur Moon" on his 1998 album Colma

Johnny Rivers has a song called "Going Back to Big Sur", which first appeared on the 1968 album Realization

Red House Painters have a song named "Revelation Big Sur" on their 1996 album Songs for a Blue Guitar

John Coolidge Adams composed an electric violin concerto called "The Dharma at Big Sur" for the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2003

Mason Jennings has a song named "Big Sur" on his self-titled 2000 album

The Thrills had a song called "Big Sur" on their 2003 album So Much for the City

"California Saga: Big Sur", a song by the Beach Boys from their 1973 album Holland

Jimmy Scalia made a CD of Bobby Darin called Songs from Big Sur which contained folk and protest music written when he lived in a trailer in Big Sur in 1968.

Celebration at Big Sur, a 1971 film starring Joan Baez, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and Joni Mitchell, which documented the 1969 Big Sur Folk Festival at the Esalen Institute