Lucien carr e allen ginsberg biography

American journalist

Lucien Carr (March 1, 1925 – January 28, 2005) was a key member of the original New York City circle of the Beat Generation in the 1940s and also a convicted manslaughterer. He later worked for many years as an editor for United Press International.

Early life

Carr was born in New York City; his parents, Marion Howland (née Gratz) and Russell Carr, were both children of socially prominent St. Louis families. His maternal grandfather was Benjamin Gratz, a St. Louis capitalist who was engaged in the rope making business and was descended from Michael Gratz, who was among the first Jewish settlers of Philadelphia and was prominent in Philadelphia's social life.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} After his parents separated in 1930, young Lucien and his mother moved back to St. Louis; Carr spent the rest of his childhood there.^[6]

At the age of 12, Carr met David Kammerer (b. 1911), a man who would

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DaneCobain.com | Reviews

Title: The Letters of Allen Ginsberg

Author: Allen Ginsberg

Type: Non-Fiction

Page Count/Review Word Count: 468

Rating: 6/10

 

Allen Ginsberg – The Letters of Allen Ginsberg

 

It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of Allen Ginsberg and beat writers in general, but this book was a little heavy even for me – as with most collections of letters, it’s better suited to scholars and researchers, who can dip in and out to source references for their essays. Reading it from cover to cover took a lot of time, and I’ll confess that inom had to do it over the course of a year, reading only one or two letters at a time.

Ginsberg and his pals often wrote in a sort of code, a bizarre dialect which was populated with obscurereferences and in-jokes that only the recipients of the letters could really understand – even with hefty annotations, it’s often a struggle to understand wh

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Lucien Carr papers, 1951-1975

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