Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac

male, deceased (1969)
Jack Kerouac (pronounced) (March 12 1922 - October 21 1969) was an American novelist, writer, poet, and artist. He is perhaps the best known of a...
Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

male, deceased (1997)
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 - April 5 1997) was an American poet. Ginsberg is best known for "Howl" (1956), a long poem about the...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

male, 90 years old
"' Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born Lawrence Ferling"' on March 24, 1919) is an American poet. He is also the co-owner of the City Lights Bookstore and...
Neal Cassady

Neal Cassady

male, deceased (1968)
Neal Cassady (February 8, 1926 - February 4, 1968) was an icon of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic movement of the 1960s,...
Gregory Corso

Gregory Corso

male, deceased (2001)
Gregory Nunzio Corso (March 26, 1930 - January 17, 2001) was an American poet, the fourth member of the canon of Beat Generation writers (with Jack...
Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder

male, 79 years old
Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet (originally, often associated with the Beat Generation), essayist, lecturer, and environmental...
Ken Kesey

Ken Kesey

male, deceased (2001)
Kenneth Elton Kesey (September 17, 1935 - November 10, 2001) was an American author, best known for his novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest",...
Michael McClure

Michael McClure

male, 77 years old
Michael McClure, an American poet, playwright, songwriter and novelist, was born in Marysville, Kansas on (October 20, 1932) before moving to San...
Peter Orlovsky

Peter Orlovsky

male, 76 years old
Peter Orlovsky (born July 8 1933 on the Lower East Side, New York City) is an American poet best known for being the lover of Beat Generation poet...
Anne Waldman

Anne Waldman

female, 64 years old (Boulder, Colorado, United States)
Anne Waldman (born April 2, 1945) is an American poet. Waldman was born in Millville, New Jersey and grew up on MacDougal Street in New York City....