Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti
Born	March 24, 1919 • Yonkers • New York
Died	February 22, 2021 (aged 101) • San Francisco • California
Founder	Beat movement
Notable Works	“A Coney Island of the Mind” • “A Far Rockaway of the Heart” • “Americus: Part I” • “Endless Life” • “I Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Career: The Selected Correspondence of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg, 1955–1997” • “Little Boy” • “Love in the Days of Rage” • “One Thousand Fearful Words for Fidel Castro” • “Pictures of the Gone World” • “Tentative Description of a Dinner Given to Promote the Impeachment of President Eisenhower” • “Tyrannus Nix?” • “What is Poetry?” • “Where is Vietnam” • “Who Are We Now?” • “Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960–2010”
Movement / Style	Beat movement