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The Ultimate, Illustrated Beats Chronology

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Availability:In StockContributor:Robert NiemiPublish date:2011-08-02Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:CatapultISBN-13:9781593764111ISBN-10:1593764111UPC:9781593764111Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.98 x 4.37 x 0.92 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SCM16QYZJC
Did you know that less than two weeks after Jack Kerouac reported to the Newport, RI U.S. Naval Training Station (the same month that the German 6th Army was surrendering at Stalingrad), he was discharged, diagnosed with a "Constitutional Psychopathic State, Schizoid Personality"? That just a few months later, William Burroughs moved from Chicago to New York, where he took a small apartment at 69 Bedford Street and began a heroin addiction that was to last until 1956? That meanwhile, Gregory Corso, thirteen and homeless, was being arrested for petty larceny, while Hubert Selby, Jr., fifteen, joined the Merchant Marines? And that the very same year, Allen Ginsberg, a new graduate from Eastside High School in Patterson, New Jersey, began his first semester at Columbia University, where he first made the acquaintance of Herbert Gold and Jack Kerouac?

Packed with month-by-month and week-by-week anecdotes, The Ultimate, Illustrated Beats Chronology is a meticulous timeline detailing the life events and literary accomplishments of the writers who became known as the Beat Generation. Covering an entire century and then some, this beautifully illustrated volume is certain to be an invaluable resource for anyone curious about the Beat Generation.
Language:EnglishPublisher:CatapultISBN-13:9781593764111ISBN-10:1593764111UPC:9781593764111Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.98 x 4.37 x 0.92 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SCM16QYZJC
Robert Niemi is a Professor of English and American Studies at St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont. He is the author of several previous nonfiction and reference works including History in the Media: Film & Television and a biography of Russell Banks. He lives in Vermont.
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