Person Detail: Allen Ginsberg

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General Information:
Full Name: Allen Ginsberg
Biography: (1926-1997) Poet, outspoken member of the Beat movement of writers. Allen Ginsberg lived at 206 East 7th Street, 170 East 2nd Street, 404 East 14th Street, and 536 West 114th Street in Manhattan, New York. He is best known for his poem "Howl," which is considered one of the essential texts of the Beat generation. Other volumes of his Whitmanesque poetry include "Kaddish and Other Poems, 1958-1960" (1961), and "The Fall of America" (1973). "Allen Verbatim" (1974) is a collection of lectures.
Author's Timeline:
1926		(Unknown) County Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1926.
1997		New York County Allen Ginsberg died in New York, New York, in 1997.
1956		(Unknown) County Howl and Other Poems Collection of poetry.
1961		(Unknown) County Kaddish and Other Poems, 1958-1960 Collection of poetry.
1973		(Unknown) County The Fall Of America
1948		New York County Ginsberg graduated from Columbia University in 1948.
1968		Otsego County In July of 1968 Allen purchases an 80-acre farm near the small town of Cherry Valley, New York, as a retreat and work place, and to insulate his partner Peter Orlovsky from drugs.
1968		Otsego County In September 1968, Allen Ginsberg retires to his property in Cherry Valley, New York, for the winter. He hires filmmaker Gordon Ball to manage the farm with Peter Orlovsky, and begins setting some of William Blake’s work to music for release on the Apple Records label.
1986		Kings County Allen is appointed Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College -- his first paid professorial job.
1994		New York County Buys a loft space in New York’s East Village to serve as his home and office.
1997		(Unknown) County Allen Ginsberg was interred in Gomel Chesed Cemetery, Newark, Essex County, New Jersey.
1962		(Unknown) County Empty Mirror Collection of poetry.
1963		(Unknown) County Reality Sandwiches Collection of poetry.
1964		(Unknown) County The Yage Letters Collection of poetry; written with William Burroughs.
1966		(Unknown) County The Marihuana Papers Collection of poetry.
1968		(Unknown) County TV Baby Poem Collection of poetry.
1969		(Unknown) County Planet News 1961-1967 Collection of poetry.
1969		(Unknown) County Ankor Wat Collection of poetry.
1970		(Unknown) County Indian Journals Collection of poetry.
1980		(Unknown) County Straight Hearts' Delight: Love Poems And Selected Letters (Pub: Gay Sunshine Press ISBN: 0917342658; ISBN-13: 978-0917342653) Poetry; with Peter Orlovsky.
?		New York County Ginsberg lived at 206 East 7th Street, 170 East 2nd Street, 404 East 14th Street, and 536 West 114th Street, New York, New York.

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Person Detail: Allen Ginsberg