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Beat Generation

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Alexander TrocchiAuthor · BooksIllustration — Trocchi in 1967
Allen GinsbergAuthor · BooksIrwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer.
Amiri BarakaAuthor · BooksAmiri Baraka (born Everett Leroy Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays,…
Anne WaldmanAuthor · BooksAnne Waldman (born April 2, 1945) is an American poet.
Charles BukowskiPerson · Film memorabiliaHenry Charles Bukowski (born Heinrich Karl Bukowski; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer.
Charles OlsonAuthor · BooksHarvard University Graduate work in American Studies, 1936-1939
City Lights BookstoreOrganisation · Publishers and printersCity Lights is an independent bookstore-publisher combination in San Francisco, California, that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics.
Ed SandersPerson · Music memorabiliaEdward Sanders (born August 17, 1939) is an American poet, singer, activist, author, publisher and longtime member of the rock band the Fugs.
Eric "Big Daddy" NordAuthor · BooksEric "Big Daddy" Nord (1919–1989) was a Beat Generation coffeehouse and nightclub owner, poet, actor, and hipster.
Gary SnyderAuthor · BooksGary Sherman Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist.
Gregory CorsoAuthor · BooksGregory Nunzio Corso (March 26, 1930 – January 17, 2001) was an American poet. Along with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S.
Harold NorseAuthor · BooksHarold Norse (July 6, 1916 – June 8, 2009) was an American writer who created a body of work using the American idiom of everyday language and images.
Jan KerouacAuthor · BooksJanet Michelle "Jan" Kerouac (February 16, 1952 – June 5, 1996) was an American writer and the only child of Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac and Joan Haverty Kerouac.
Jane BowlesAuthor · BooksJane Bowles (born Jane Sydney Auer; February 22, 1917 – May 4, 1973) was an American writer and playwright.
Janine Pommy VegaAuthor · BooksJanine Pommy Vega (February 5, 1942 – December 23, 2010) was an American poet associated with the Beat Generation.
John BrandiAuthor · BooksJohn Brandi (born 1943 11 5, Los Angeles, California) is an American poet and artist. San Francisco Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman has said of Brandi:
Joyce JohnsonAuthor · BooksShe was born in New York City.
Kenn DavisArtist · PaintingsKenn Davis (1932–2010) was an American surrealist painter and mystery novel writer. During the 1950s and 1960s he was associated with the Beat Generation at San Francisco's North Beach.
Lawrence FerlinghettiArtist · PaintingsLawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti (Ferling; March 24, 1919 – February 22, 2021) was an American poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.
Lew WelchAuthor · BooksIllustration — Welch at his Marin City home in 1968
Michael McClurePerson · Music memorabiliaMichael McClure (October 20, 1932 – May 4, 2020) was an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist.
Neal CassadyAuthor · BooksNeal Leon Cassady (February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968) was an American writer who was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic and counterculture movements of…
Paul BowlesPhotographer · PhotographyPaul Frederic Bowles (December 30, 1910November 18, 1999) was an American composer, author, and translator.
Ray NelsonArtist · Comics and comic artRadell Faraday Nelson (October 3, 1931 – November 30, 2022) was an American science fiction author and cartoonist most notable for his 1963 short story "Eight O'Clock in the Morning",[1]…
Robert DuncanAuthor · BooksIllustration — Robert Duncan
William Carlos WilliamsAuthor · BooksWilliam Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism.
William S. Burroughs Jr.Author · BooksWilliam Seward Burroughs III (July 21, 1947 – March 3, 1981), also known as William S. Burroughs Jr. And Billy Burroughs, was an American novelist.

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