This is the Beat Generation
by Campbell, James, James Campbell · 1999
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Jack Karouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs had all seen the inside of mental hospitals and prisons by the age of 30. This book charts the transformation of these experiences into literature and a literary movement that spread across the globe.
Beat generationIntellectual lifeHistory and criticismAmerican literatureAmerican AuthorsAmericansAuthors, AmericanBiographyHistoryBeats (Persons)Burroughs, william s., 1914-1997Kerouac, jack, 1922-1969