John Clellon Holmes
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Jack Kerouac...into many of his novels: the so-called Beat Generation, including Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, John Clellon Holmes, Herbert Huncke and William S. Burroughs. Kerouac joined the United States Merchant Marine in 1942, and in 1943 joined... In this article: Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, The Dharma Bums, William S. Burroughs, Buddhism, Beat Generation, Columbia University, and The Subterraneans |
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Allen Ginsberg
...debate group. In Ginsberg's freshman year at Columbia he met fellow undergraduate Lucien Carr, who introduced him to a number of future Beat writers, including Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and John Clellon Holmes. They bonded...
In this article: Irwin Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, William Carlos Williams, Moloch, Beat Generation, William Blake, Paul Cezanne, and Peter Orlovsky
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Beat Generation
...as separate movements. The main figures and early writers of the Beats were Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, Herbert Huncke, Peter Orlovsky, and John Clellon Holmes. Certain poets the core...
In this article: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Beat Generation, Beat Hotel, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, On the Road, Neal Cassady, Lucien Carr, and Beat
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Ed Piskor
...scholarly history, only far more entertaining. " The Beats tells the story of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S Burroughs and John Clellon Holmes who became known as The Beat Generation. This cultural revolution is seen through the...
In this article: Ed Piskor, Harvey Pekar, American Splendor, Jay Lynch, Joe Kubert School, Steve Bissette, Robert Crumb, Kevin Mitnick, and Philip Lamantia
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Moody Street Irregulars
...the contents of issue number 9 (1981), a special Vanity of Duluoz issue including essays and articles by Gregory Stephenson, John Clellon Holmes, Carolyn Cassady, plus an interview with William Burroughs by Jennie Skerl. Issue number 11...
In this article: Jack Kerouac, Moody Street Irregulars, Tom Clark, Steve Fiorilla, and Beat Generation
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The Beat Page - John Clellon Holmes
by John Clellon Holmes, A 26-year-old defines his times, New York Times Magazine, ... John Clellon Holmes is an essayist, poet, and novelist; and was a "sometime ...
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Amazon.com: What Happened to Kerouac?: Gregory Corso, Jan ...
... Parker, William S. Burroughs, Michael McClure, John Clellon Holmes, Lawrence ... What Happened to Kerouac? ...
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William S. Burroughs
As a young man, William S. Burroughs already had a reputation as a brilliant, ... Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, John Clellon Holmes, Hal Chase, and Lucien Carr. ...
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The Beat Page - Neal Cassady
... Nick Nolte as Neal, Sissy Spacek as Carolyn, and John Heard as Jack Kerouac. William Plummer's definitive book on Cassady, "The Holy Goof" was published in 1981. ...
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William S. Burroughs at Kerouac Alley
A Directory of William S. Burroughs and the Beat Generation and the Beat ... Burroughs attended John Burroughs School in St. Louis, and The Los Alamos Ranch ...
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John Clellon Holmes (March 12, 1926 - March 30, 1988), born in Holyoke Massachusetts, was a writer, poet and professor, best known for his 1952 book Go. Go is considered the first "Beat" novel, which depicted events in his life with friends Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and Allen Ginsberg. He was often referred to as the "quiet Beat," and was one of Kerouac's closest friends. He also wrote what is considered the definitive jazz novel of the Beat Generation, The Horn.
Holmes was more an observer and documenter of beat characters like Ginsberg, Cassidy and Kerouac than one of them. He asked Ginsberg for "any and all information on your poetry and your visions" (shortly before Ginsberg's admission into hospital) saying that "I am interested in knowing also anything you may wish to tell...about Neal, Huncke, Lucien in relation to you..." to which Ginsberg replied with an eleven page letter detailing, as completely as he could, the nature of his 'divine vision.'
The origin of the term "beat" being applied to a generation was conceived by Jack Kerouac who told Holmes "You know, this is really a beat generation." The term beat later became part of common parlance when Holmes published an article in The New York Times Magazine entitled "This is the Beat Generation" on November 16, 1952 (pg.10). In the article Holmes attributes the term to Jack Kerouac. Kerouac in turn had gotten the idea from Herbert Huncke. Holmes came to the conclusion that the values and ambitions of the Beat Generation were symbolic of something bigger, which was the inspiration for Go.
Later in life, Holmes taught at the University of Arkansas and lectured at Yale and gave workshops at Brown University. He died of cancer 18 days after his 62nd birthday.
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