Di Prima, Diane, 1934-2020

Diane Di Prima was born on 6 August 1934 in Brooklyn, N.Y. She attended Swarthmore College, but dropped out in 1953 to move to Manhattan and become a writer. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, she joined the emerging Beat movement. She was the editor of the newsletter The Floating Bear with LeRoi Jones, 1961-1969. In 1966, she moved to Millbrook, N.Y., to live in Timothy Leary's community. She moved to San Francisco, Calif., in 1968. In California, she taught at such institutions as the New College of California and the California College of Arts and Crafts. She also taught at Naropa University, specifically in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Her works include her fictionalized memoir Memoirs of a Beatnik (1968), the long poem Loba (1998), and the book Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years (2001), as well as many other short and long pieces, chiefly poems.

From the guide to the Diane Di Prima Papers, 1955-2007, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Rare Book Literary and Historical Papers.)

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