Jack Kerouac Papers, 1920-1977 bulk 1935-1969.

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 1919-2021

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti was an American poet and publisher, most closely associated with the Beat movement. Born in New York, Ferlinghetti suffered several family-related tragedies in his youth, and was raised in unusual circumstances. Educated at the University of North Carolina, he served in World War II, and continued his education at Columbia and The Sorbonne. He moved to San Francisco, where he co-founded City Lights book store and publishing house, which became integral wi...

Whalen, Philip.

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Philip Whalen was a Beat poet and a Buddhist Monk. From the description of Philip Whalen papers, [194-]-2001. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 57586331 Poet; associated with Gary Snyder, Lew Welch, San Francisco beat writers, and Charles Olson; ordained a Buddhist monk in the 1970s; b. 1923. From the description of Philip Whalen Collection, 1958-1977. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28418352 Philip Glenn Whalen w...

Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997

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Irwin Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey to Louis and Naomi (Levy) Ginsberg. American poet, author, lecturer, and teacher who was one of the core members of the Beat Generation of American author's in the 1950's and early 1960's along with Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. He died of complications of liver cancer on April 6, 1997. From the description of Allen Ginsberg papers, 1937-1994. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 462019390 ...

Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969

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Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist of French Canadian ancestry, who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts, Kerouac learned English at age six and spoke with a marked accent into his late teens. Kerouac spent much of his youth engaged in sports and other physical activities. His athletic prowess earned him a...

McClure, Michael.

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Michael McClure was an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist, and part of the Beat Generation of poetry. He was one of five authors who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading, and became close with Jack Kerouac, being immortalized as Pat McLean in Big Sur. He is known as the Prince of the Frisco Scene. From the guide to the Michael McClure letter to Diane di Prima, September 1968, (Ohio University) San Francisco-based ...

Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998

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Epithet: Professor of English British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x0002f8 American writer, literary critic and memoirist; author of "On native grounds," and "A walk in the city." From the description of Alfred Kazin letter [manuscript], 1943 March 28. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647999332 Writer. From the description of Reminiscences of Alfred Kazin: oral h...

Webber, Hugo.

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Beaulieu, Joseph Henry.

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Blake, Carolyn.

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Kerouac, Joan, -1990

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Dastou, George.

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Orlovsky, Peter, 1933-2010

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Writer, associate of Allen Ginsberg. From the description of Papers, 1954-1971. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122482491 American poet, born July 8, 1933, in New York City. From the description of Peter Orlovsky Papers, 1952-1983. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122590485 Peter Orlovsky, poet, musician, farmer, teacher, and companion of po...

Charters, Ann.

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For nearly the last 50 years, Samuel Charters has been discovering and documenting African American music. Starting as a field recorder for Folkways Records in 1954, Sam Charters has also served as recording director for Prestige and Vanguard Records, producer for Sonet Records and is the owner of Gazell Records . A prolific writer and poet, Charters has published many books about the blues and accounts of the lives of musicians who played the blues. In the field, he often collaborated with his ...

Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989

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American editor and writer. From the description of Letter to Matthew Bruccoli [manuscript], 1975 December 30. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647812058 From the description of Papers of Malcolm Cowley [manuscript], 1969. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647810601 From the description of Papers of Malcolm Cowley [manuscript], 1936-1955. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647874698 Malcolm Cowley was an influential liter...

Sorrells, Lois.

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Huncke, Herbert, E.

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Reynolds, Kelly

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Krim, Seymour, 1922-

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Seymour Krim was born in New York City. After a year at the University of North Carolina, he returned to New York and began writing reviews and literary essays. Later he edited several magazines featuring modern poetry. His best known work was The beats (1960), a study of contemporary poets. In his later years, he taught in several universities, including the Pennsylvania State University. From the description of Seymour Krim letters to Diane di Prima, 1962-1965. (Pennsylvania State ...

Padgett, Ron, 1942-....

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Padgett was born on June 17, 1942, in Tulsa, OK; A.B., Columbia Univ., 1964; poetry workshop instructor, St. Mark's-in-the-Bowery, New York City, 1968-69; poet in various NYC Poets in the Schools programs, 1969-76; cofounded Full Court Press publishers in 1973; writer in the community, South Carolina Arts Commission, 1976-78; director, St. Mark's Poetry Project, NYC, 1978-81; director of publications, Teachers and Writers Collaborative, beginning in 1982; published works include: Seventeen : col...

Rosset, Barney

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Maverick and iconoclast American publisher Barney Rosset was born in Chicago in the "year of modernism," 1922. He is chiefly remembered as the owner, publisher, and editor of Grove Press (from 1951 to 1986) and Evergreen Review. In 1940 he spent a year at Swarthmore College and then entered the US Army in 1942. In 1948, after having served as an officer in the Army Photographic Company in China until his return to New York in 1946, Rosset produced Strange Victory, ...

Donovan, Vincent C., Father.

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Avakian, Albert.

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Sampas, Jim

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Cassady, Neal

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American author. From the description of Neal Cassady Collection, 1947-1965. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122632902 ...

Pivano, Fernanda Sottsass.

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Buckley, William F., Jr., 1925-2008

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Epithet: jr of the National Review British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001186.0x000169 William F. Buckley, Jr. was born in 1925 and graduated from Yale University in 1950. In 1955 he founded the magazine The National Review. He also wrote a nationally syndicated column and hosted the weekly television show Firing Line from 1966 through 1999. In 1965 Buckley ran unsuccessfully as the Conservative Party candidate for...

Giroux, Robert

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Writer, editor, publisher, most notably for 40 years as a partner in the the firm of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Native of New Jersey, graduated with honors from Columbia University in 1936. Author of three books: The Education of an editor : the Bowker lectures for 1981; The Book known as Q : a study of Shakespeare's sonnets (1982); and A Deed of death : the story of an unsolved Hollywood murder (1990). Edited or wrote introductions for The Collected prose of Elizabeth B...

Chase, Hal, 1883-1947

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Beckwith, Jacques.

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Apostolos, George J.

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MacManus, Patricia.

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Amburn, Ellis.

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Corso, Gregory

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American writer, primarily of poetry, Corso was born in New York City in 1930. He worked as a migrant laborer, newspaper reporter for the L.A. Examiner, and merchant seaman before joining the English Department at SUNY Buffalo in 1965. In the mid-1950s he began to give public readings of his poetry, often sharing the stage with other Beat poets. His 1958 volume, GASOLINE, marks the beginning of his long association with San Francisco's City Lights Bookstore and the Bay Area in general, which fig...

Kerouac, Leo.

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Twardowicz, Stanley, 1917-

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Stanley Twardowicz (1917-2008) was a painter and photographer in Huntington, N.Y. Twardowicz associated with the Beat Generation writers and 1950s Abstract Expressionist movement. His widow, Lillian Dodson, is a ceramicist. From the description of Stanley Twardowicz papers, 1925-2007. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 613316799 Stanley Twardowicz (1917-2008) was a painter and photographer in Huntington, N.Y. Twardowicz associate...

Morales, Adele.

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Lamantia, Philip, 1927-2005

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American poet. From the description of Cool ; New York blank poem New York ; [typed letter signed, to LeRoi Jones] : typescripts, 1959 / Philip Lamantia. 1959. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 18423222 ...

Micheline, Jack, 1929-1998

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American artist and poet, b. Nov. 6, 1929; d. Feb. 27, 1998. A major figure in the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance. From the description of Jack Micheline archival collection, 1958-1998. (Utah State University). WorldCat record id: 301740482 American author, b. Nov. 6, 1929; d. Feb. 27, 1998. From the description of Jack Micheline papers, 1948-1986. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 122647626 ...

Carney, Mary (Maggie Cassidy inspiration)

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Jeffries, Frank.

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Cudworth, James.

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Sampas, Sebastian.

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Cru, Henri.

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Beckwith, L. (Lois)

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Garver, William.

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Kerouac, Edie Parker, 1923-1992

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Frankie Edith Parker (1922-1993) was Jack Kerouac's first wife, from 1944 until their separation in 1946 and legal annulment in 1952. Henri Cru (1921-1992) was Kerouac's friend at Horace Mann Preparatory School in New York City. Parker and Cru dated until Cru introduced Parker to Kerouac in 1942. Kerouac kept in touch with both Parker and Cru until his death in 1969. From the description of Edie Parker and Henri Cru papers, 1883-2004. WorldCat record id: 70660753 ...

Sublette, Al.

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Salvas, Roland.

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Kerouac, Stella.

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Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997

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William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) was an American experimental novelist, "beat" poet, and cultural icon. From the guide to the William S. Burroughs Letter, undated, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), American novelist, essayist, writer of experimental fiction. A primary member of the Beat generation, he was an avant-garde author who affected postwar popular culture as well as literature. From the ...

Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005

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Sponsored by Stanford University, the English Department, the Creative Writing Program, the Stanford Humanities Center, the Stanford Library, and the Library Associates. From the description of A symposium on his poetry and his place in American letters : recording, 2005 Nov. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864090 David Shaff was at Yale at this time; he wrote and edited poetry. From the description of Letters to David O. Schaff, 1962-1965. (Unknown). WorldC...

White, Ed (Architect)

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Holmes, John Clellon, 1926-1988

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Author. From the description of Reminiscences of John Clellon Holmes : oral history, 1976. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309740414 American writer and educator John Clellon Holmes (1926-1988), author of novels, short stories, essays, and poems, was best known as a chronicler of the ideology and lifestyle of the "Beat generation writers." Holmes's semi-autobiographical novel Go, publish...

Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014

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Amiri Baraka was born LeRoi Jones in Newark, New Jersey, in 1934. He was educated at Rutgers and Howard Universities, graduating from the latter at the age of 19. In 1958 he founded the influential poetry magazine Yugen, which ran until 1962. His writings, including fiction, essays, and poetry, appeared in such publications as The nation, Evergreen review, Downbeat, and The floating bear. From the description of Imamu Amiri Baraka papers, 1958-1982. (University of California, Berkele...

Sampas, John

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Wyse, Seymour.

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Blake, Paul, (Mechanic)

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Snyder, Gary, 1930-....

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Poet, essayist, translator, Zen Buddhist, environmentalist, and teacher, Gary Snyder is considered one of the most significant environmental writers of the twentieth century and a central figure in environmental activism. From the description of Papers, 1910-2003 1945-2002. (University of California, Davis). WorldCat record id: 30107060 Gary Snyder (1930- ), poet, essayist, translator, Zen Buddhist, environmentalist, lecturer, and teacher, is considered one of the most signi...

Fitzgerald, Jack.

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Cassady, Carolyn

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Carr, Lucien, 1925-2005

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Lucien Carr was born in New York City in 1925, but spent most of his childhood in St. Louis, Missouri. It was in St. Louis that he first met Washington University instructor David Kammerer and Kammerer's childhood friend William S. Burroughs. After graduating from Andover Academy, Carr briefly enrolled in Bowdoin College, but soon transferred to the University of Chicago, where he stayed for two semesters until an apparent suicide attempt caused him to be briefly institu...

Kerouac, Gabrielle

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Lord, Sterling, 1920-

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Guernic, Youenn.

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Chippindale, Harry.

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Lax, Robert

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Poet & editor (Columbia University B.A., 1938) who was born in 1915. From the guide to the Robert Lax Papers, [ca. 1938]-1990, (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Poet & editor (Columbia University B.A., 1938) who was born in 1915. From the description of Robert Lax papers, [ca. 1938]-1990. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 606938033 ...

Leary, Timothy, 1920-1996

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b. Oct. 22, 1920, Springfield, Mass.; d. May 31, 1996, Los Angeles; American writer, psychologist, computer software designer, and advocate of psychedelic drug research and use. From the description of The seven levels of pleasure : unedited studio sessions / Timothy Leary, 1969. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 81303143 From the description of Timothy Leary : sound recordings / 1969. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 81303113 American-born ...

Van Doren, Mark, 1894-1972

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Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Mark Van Doren and his wife, Dorothy Van Doren. From the description of Letters, 1965-1978, to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155877479 Mark Van Doren was an American author, scholar, and educator. He is probably best remembered for his long tenure as Columbia professor, where he was noted for his inspired Humanities courses and respect for students. His poetry was meticulously well-crafted and gr...