Lawrence Ferlinghetti
1919
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2021
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
movement: Beat Generation
country of citizenship: United States of America
educated at: University of Paris, Columbia University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Northfield Mount Hermon School, Riverdale Country School
occupation: military officer, poet, translator, publisher, painter, journalist, peace activist, writer, activist shareholder, playwright, bookseller, political activist
Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti (March 24, 1919 – February 22, 2021) was an American poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. An author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, Ferlinghetti was best known for his second collection of poems, A Coney Island of the Mind (1958), which has been translated into nine languages and sold over a million copies. When Ferlinghetti turned 100 in March 2019, the city of San Francisco turned his birthday, March 24, into "Lawrence Ferlinghetti Day". Source: Wikipedia (en)
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