Details

Subject(s)

• Beats (Persons)—Dictionaries [Browse]
• Bohemianism—United States—Dictionaries [Browse]
• Beat literature—Dictionaries [Browse]
• Beat literature—Bio-bibliography [Browse]
• Authors, American—Biography—Dictionaries [Browse]

Contributor

• Charters, Ann, 1936- [Browse]

Series

Dictionary of literary biography The Beats, literary bohemians in postwar America

Summary note

Contains biographical sketches of American avant-garde writers sharing certain diverse aesthetic and social concerns in the mid-twentieth century, not the least a shared mistrust of the American "virtues" of progress and power after the atomic bomb.

Notes

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Language note

English

Contents

• Part 1
• Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (1934-) - Paul Blackburn (1926-1971) - Bonnie Bremser (1939-) - Ray Bremser (1934-) - Chandler Brossard (1922-) - William S. Burroughs (1914-) William S. Burroughs, Jr. (1947-1981) - Paul Carroll (1927-) - Carolyn Cassady (1923-) - Neal Cassady (1926-1968) - Andy Clausen (1943-) - Gregory Corso (1930-) - Robert Creeley (1926-) - Diane DiPrima (1934-) - Kirby Doyle (1932-) - Robert Duncan (1919-) - Bob Dylan (1941-) - William Everson (Brother Antoninus) (1912-) - Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-) - Allen Ginsberg (1926-) - Brion Gysin (1916-) - John Clellon Holmes (1926-) - Herbert Huncke (1915-) - Ted Joans (1928-) - Lenore Kandel (1932-) - Bob Kaufman (1925-) - Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) - Jan Kerouac (1952-) - Ken Kesey (1935-) - Seymour Krim (1922-) - Tuli Kupferberg (1923-) - Joanne Kyger (1934-) - Philip Lamantia (1927-) - Jay Landesman (1919-) and Fran Landesman (1927-) - Timothy Leary (1920-) - Lawrence Lipton (1898-1975).
• Part 2
• Norman Mailer (1923-) - Edward Marshall (1932-) - Joanna McClure (1930-) - Michael McClure (1932-) - Taylor Mead - David Meltzer (1937-) - Jack Micheline (1939-) - Harold Norse (1916-) - Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) - Charles Olson (1910-1970) - Peter Orlovsky (1933-) - Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) - Stuart Z. Perkoff (1930-1974) - Charles Plymell (1935-) - Dan Propper (1937-) - Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982) - Michael Rumaker (1932-) - Ed Sanders (1939-) - Gary Snyder (1930-) - Carl Solomon (1928-) - Jack Spicer (1925-1965) - Charles Upton (1948-) - Janine Pommy Vega (1942-) - Anne Waldman (1945-) - Alan Watts (1915-1973) - Lew Welch (1926-1971?) - Philip Whalen (1923-) John Wieners (1934-) - William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) - A Beat Chronology: The First Twenty-Five Years, 1944-1969 - As I See It - Outlaw Days - Four Essays on the Beat Generation - The Commercialization of the Image of Revolt - Periodicals of the Beat Generation.

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