A report on Ann Charters

Professor of American Literature at the University of Connecticut at Storrs.

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Beat Generation

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Literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era.

Literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A section devoted to the beat generation at a bookstore in Stockholm, Sweden

Charters, Ann (ed.) (1992) The Portable Beat Reader. Penguin Books. ISBN: 0-670-83885-3 (hc); ISBN: 0-14-015102-8 (pbk). The table of contents is online.

Jack Kerouac by Tom Palumbo circa 1956

Jack Kerouac

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American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.

American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.

Jack Kerouac by Tom Palumbo circa 1956
Jack Kerouac's birthplace, 9 Lupine Road, 2nd floor, West Centralville, Lowell, Massachusetts
His third of several homes growing up in the West Centralville section of Lowell
Kerouac's Naval Reserve Enlistment photograph, 1943
Jack Kerouac lived with his parents for a time above a corner drug store in Ozone Park (now a flower shop), while writing some of his earliest work.
454 West 20th Street
House in College Park in Orlando, Florida where Kerouac lived and wrote The Dharma Bums
Grave in Edson Cemetery, Lowell
On the Road excerpt in the center of Jack Kerouac Alley
Jack Kerouac Alley in Chinatown, San Francisco

Charters, Ann. Kerouac. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1973.

Placed before the location of Six Gallery on the 50th anniversary of the first full-length public reading of HOWL.

Six Gallery reading

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Important poetry event that took place on Friday, October 7, 1955, at 3119 Fillmore Street in San Francisco.

Important poetry event that took place on Friday, October 7, 1955, at 3119 Fillmore Street in San Francisco.

Placed before the location of Six Gallery on the 50th anniversary of the first full-length public reading of HOWL.

Also there was Ann Charters, then a UC Berkeley college student.

Samuel Charters

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American music historian, writer, record producer, musician, and poet.

American music historian, writer, record producer, musician, and poet.

In 1959, he married the writer, editor, Beat generation scholar, photographer, and pianist Ann Charters (b.