Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark in 1926, the son of a teacher who wrote verse, and grew up in Paterson. At Columbia, where he met Kerouac and Burroughs, he was suspended for a year, then spent eight months in the university's psychiatric institute after a case involving receiving stolen goods. He worked in market research, settled in San Francisco in 1954, became a Buddhist, campaigned against the Vietnam War and received the National Book Award in 1974. He died in New York in 1997.

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• PoetryHowl and Other PoemsAllen Ginsberg · 1956Literature