Ginsberg, Allen

Cultural  

1. A twentieth-century American poet who was a leading figure among the beatniks during the 1950s. His long, loosely structured works include Howl. When his publisher, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, was tried (and acquitted) for printing obscene material, Ginsberg became for many a hero.

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Photograph: Allen Ginsberg/ Allen Ginsberg/CORBIS Born in Nashville in 1923, Carolyn first met Neal – "the holy conman with the shining mind", as Kerouac had it – in 1947, when she was a blonde beauty studying art and drama in Denver.

From The Guardian