Michael McClure
1932
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2020
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
movement: Beat Generation
country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: English
occupation: poet, dramaturge, playwright, composer, writer, lyricist
award received: Guggenheim Fellowship, PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award
influenced by: Jack Kerouac
official website: www.michael-mcclure.com
Michael McClure (October 20, 1932 – May 4, 2020) was an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist. After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poets (including Allen Ginsberg) who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955, which was rendered in barely fictionalized terms in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums. He soon became a key member of the Beat Generation and was immortalized as Pat McLear in Kerouac's Big Sur. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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