num_pages: 387
description: The second volume in the acclaimed series that brings to life the groups of avant-garde writers, artists, and patrons who were keystones of what has come to be called Modernism, this book sheds new light on the hard-living, maverick poets and novelists--William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and others--who coalesced into the Beats. Illustrations.
language: English
title: The Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels, and Hipsters, 1944-1960
titlecomplete: The Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels, and Hipsters, 1944-1960 (Circles of the Twentieth Century)
genres: Writing, Historical, Biography, Poetry, Nonfiction, History, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 120
series: Circles of the Twentieth Century
publisher: Pantheon