A report on Jack Kerouac, Beat Generation and Gregory Corso

Jack Kerouac's birthplace, 9 Lupine Road, 2nd floor, West Centralville, Lowell, Massachusetts

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

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.

House in College Park in Orlando, Florida where Kerouac lived and wrote The Dharma Bums

On the Road excerpt in the center of Jack Kerouac Alley

Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.

- Jack Kerouac

He was the youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers (with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs).

- Gregory Corso

Allen Ginsberg's Howl (1956), William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch (1959), and Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957) are among the best known examples of Beat literature.

- Beat Generation

Mr. and Mrs. Jones were associated with a number of Beats (Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Gregory Corso).

- Beat Generation

His friendship with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Gregory Corso, among others, became a notorious representation of the Beat Generation.

- Jack Kerouac

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Allen Ginsberg

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American poet and writer.

First edition cover of Ginsberg's landmark poetry collection, Howl and Other Poems(1956)

Ginsberg with his partner, poet Peter Orlovsky. Photo taken in 1978

Allen Ginsberg greeting A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada at San Francisco International Airport. January 17, 1967

The Mantra-Rock Dance promotional poster featuring Allen Ginsberg along with leading rock bands.

Protesting at the 1972 Republican National Convention

Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and John C. Lilly in 1991

As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation.

Also, in New York, Ginsberg met Gregory Corso in the Pony Stable Bar.

William S. Burroughs

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William S. Burroughs' childhood home on Pershing Place in St. Louis

William S. Burroughs and James Grauerholz in the alley behind the Jazzhaus in Lawrence, Kansas (1996)

Burroughs and David Woodard with Brion Gysin Dreamachine, 1997

William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist, widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular culture and literature.

In 1943, while living in New York City, he befriended Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac.

This shabby, inexpensive hotel was populated by Gregory Corso, Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky for several months after Naked Lunch first appeared.

Gary Snyder

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American man of letters.

He spent some months in 1955 and 1956 living in a cabin (which he dubbed "Marin-an") outside Mill Valley, California with Jack Kerouac.

In the 1950s, Snyder took part in the rise of a strand of Buddhist anarchism emerging from the Beat movement.

Snyder has also commented "The term Beat is better used for a smaller group of writers ... the immediate group around Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, plus Gregory Corso and a few others. Many of us ... belong together in the category of the San Francisco Renaissance. ... Still, beat can also be defined as a particular state of mind ... and I was in that mind for a while".