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Rosalind Sharpe Wall (December 27, 1918 - September 28, 1991) was an American writer, astrologer, and spiritualist who grew up in the remote region of Big Sur, in the central coast of California.

Rosalind Wall was born December 27, 1918 in Oregon, the daughter of Howard Granville Sharpe and Frida Grace Steinhart. By the time she was a year old, they had moved to Big Sur, California.

She was the first native of Big Sur to write a book about the people and events which took place in the "Sur". It took many years to complete. As she said "I first conceived of writing it when I was only eleven years old, in 1930. This was because I was annoyed by the fact that hundreds of tourists came flocking down the old county road looking for the tragic protagonists of the Jeffers' poems and finding them, they thought, in every old ranch-house, especially ours." She lived in Deetjen's barn for a time, and walked many miles up mountains, up and down the coast to interview old-timers and new-comers alike. The book is entitled "A Wild Coast and Lonely - Big Sur Pioneers".

She had two children, a son and a daughter, with Patrick Marsden Wall between 1951 - 1952.

She died on September 28, 1991, in Monterey, California, at the age of 72.

WORK HISTORY She was one of the first writers for What's Doing, a magazine for the Monterey Peninsula area of California, run by Bill Fassett until 1947. She also wrote articles for Game & Gossip - a magazine, the Carmel Pine Cone - Cymbal (later simply the Carmel Pine Cone) and the Monterey Herald, all local publications of the Carmel-by-the-Sea area.