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Also Known As Irwin Allen Ginsberg
Born June 3, 1926 • Newark • New Jersey
Died April 5, 1997 (aged 70) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors National Book Award
Notable Works “Howl and Other Poems” • “Howl” • “Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters” • “Mind Breaths: Poems 1972-1977” • “Planet News” • “Reality Sandwiches” • “The Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965-1971” • “The Letters of Allen Ginsberg” • “Wait Till I’m Dead: Uncollected Poems” • “White Shroud: Poems 1980-1985”
Movement / Style Beat movement

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Allen Ginsberg sits on a chair holding a microphone and paper, rehearsing on stage at the Royal Albert Hall in London under stage lights.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg stand in front of sculpted figures at the Albert Memorial in South Kensington, London, in a black-and-white photo from 1965.
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