The birth of the beat generation
Subtitle: visionaries, rebels, and hipsters, 1944-1960
By: Steven Watson ; with a new afterword by Robert Creeley.
Edition: lst paperback ed.
Series: Circles of the twentieth century
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
Subjects: American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Beat generation; Dissenters in literature; United States -- Civilization -- 20th century
Description: From New York to San Francisco, Texas, Mexico, and beyond, the fascinating group of maverick poets and writers known as the Beats lived a life of wild experimentation, rebelling against the buttoned-up conformity of the 1950s.

With text accompanied by more than one hundred photographs, The Birth of the Beat Generation brings their rebellion into sharp focus, tracing the connections between such figures as William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and Herbert Huncke to reveal the legend that would make them into cultural icons.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]) and index.