[2] Mary Lou told Brautigan that Porterfield was his biological father, and Brautigan began using Richard Gary Porterfield as his name. This collection of writings was gifted by a twenty-one year old Richard Brautigan to Edna Webster in 1955, when he left Oregon for San Francisco. [34] Saltpeter, a London-based production company, launched an international creative society, the Brautigan Book Club (BBC), which uses Brautigan and his work as a creative jumping off point. The band b-flower is named after Richard Brautigan, being a shortened version of "Brautigan Flower". Works publishedMain article: Richard Brautigan bibliographyReferencesFurther reading