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Early  XXth  Century
American  Authors

Authors A thru M {on Page 2}  •  Authors N thru Z {just below}

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Ogden Nash [1902-71]
browse books • movie credits at IMDb • Broadway credits • Wikipedia

Best of Ogden Nash   "The Best of Ogden Nash: 450 Favorite Poems From America's Laureate of Light Verse" [2007]
Edited by {his daughters} Linell Nash Smith & Isabel Nash Eberstadt

Ivan R. Dee, Publr 9x6¼ hardcover [12/2007] for $19.11
Ogden Nash / Life & Work   "Ogden Nash: The Life & Work of America's Laureate of Light Verse"
[2005] by Douglas M. Parker

Ivan R. Dee, Publr 8½x5½ pb [4/2007] for $12.89
Ivan R. Dee, Publr 9x6¼ hardcover [4/2005] for $20.90
Life & Rhymes of Ogden Nash   "The Life and Rhymes of Ogden Nash" [2000]
by David Stuart

Madison Books 9x6 hardcover [5/2000] for $18.96

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John O'Hara [1905-70]
browse books • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

John O'Hara's Hollywood stories  
"John O'Hara's Hollywood, 1932-1974" [22 stories 2006]
by John O'Hara, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli

Da Capo Press / Carroll & Graf 8x5½ pb [1/2007] for $13.46
The Big Laugh by John O'Hara  
"The Big Laugh" [1962] by John O'Hara
Not O'Hara's best, but still O'Hara. Blindly-ambitious actor Hubie Ward lies, cheats, and seduces his way to the big-time in Hollywood.
Ecco 8¾x5½ pb [10/97] for $16.00
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writer-director Clifford Odets [1906-63]
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Clifford Odets papers at Indiana University

Clifford Odets bio by Margaret Brenman-Gibson  
"Clifford Odets: American Playwright - The Years From 1906-1940" [2002]
by Margaret Brenman-Gibson
{the author died before completing the second volume}
Applause Books 9x6½ pb [1/2002] for $15.56
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playwright Eugene O'Neill  [1888-1953] Page

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Dorothy Parker [1893-1967] Page

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S.J. Perelman [1904-79]
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Dawn Powell [1896-1965]
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article on Dawn Powell in September 2001 Atlantic Monthly

Dawn Powell bio by Tim Page  
"Dawn Powell: A Biography" [1998]
by Tim Page

Owl Books 9x6 pb [10/99] out of print/used
Henry Holt 9½x6½ hardcover [10/98] out of print/used
Library of America Dawn Powell   Dawn Powell: Novels, 1930–1942 [2001] Edited by Tim Page
Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [9/2001] for $26.60
includes "Dance Night" [1930], "Come Back To Sorrento" [1932], "Turn, Magic Wheel" [1936], "Angels On Toast" [1940] and "A Time To Be Born" [1942]
Dawn Powell: Novels, 1944–1962 [2001] Edited by Tim Page
Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [9/2001] for $26.64
includes "My Home Is Far Away" autobiographical novel [1944], "The Locusts Have No King" [1948], "The Wicked Pavilion" [1954] and "The Golden Spur" [1962]
Library of America's "Dawn Powell: Comic Genius" pages

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Damon Runyon [1884-1946]
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Denver Press Club's Damon Runyon pages
"Damon Runyon Theater" radio program [1949] 50 episodes (of 52) on CD

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poet Carl Sandburg [1878-1967]
browse books • IMDb listing • Broadway credits • Wikipedia

Carl Sandburg Historic Site Assn.
'Chicago Poems' [1916] etext
Carl Sandburg papers at University of IL/UC: Connemara • Asheville
Poets.org's Carl Sandburg pages

Library of America Carl Sandburg  
Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems [2006]
Edited by Paul Berman

American Poets Project/LOA 7½x4¾ hardcover [10/2006] for $15.60
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William Saroyan [1908-81] Page

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Delmore Schwartz [1913-66]
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Literary Encyclopedia's Delmore Schwartz page

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Irving Shulman [1913-95]
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Upton Sinclair [1878-1968] Page

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Isaac Bashevis Singer [1904-71]
browse books • IMDb listing • Broadway credits • Wikipedia

1978 Nobel Prize
PBS special

Isaac B. Singer bio by Florence Noiville  
"Isaac B. Singer: A Life" [1980]
by Florence Noiville, translated by Catherine Temerson

FS&G 9x6 hardcover [10/2006] for $15.64
Library of America Isaac Bashevis Singer stories  
Library of America Isaac Bashevis Singer - Album  
Singer: Collected Stories, Volume 1 [2004]
Edited by Ilan Stavans

Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [7/2004] for $25.55
includes 54 stories: 'Gimpel The Fool' to 'The Letter Writer'
Singer: Collected Stories, Volume 2 [2004]
Edited by Ilan Stavans

Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [7/2004] for $26.60
includes 65 stories: 'A Friend of Kafka' to 'Passions'
Singer: Collected Stories, Volume 3 [2004]
Edited by Ilan Stavans

Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [7/2004] for $26.60
includes 80+ stories: 'One Night In Brazil' to 'The Death of Methuselah'
Singer: An Album [2004]
Edited by Ilan Stavans

Library of America 8x5 pb [7/2004] for $11.01
Library of America's Singer Centennial Exhibit

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H. Allen Smith [1907-76]
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H. Allen Smith papers at SIU
WH's H. Allen Smith fansite

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Lillian (Eugenia) Smith [1897-1966] of Georgia
a talented & courageous Southern writer who fought Jim Crow segregation & other offenses from the 1930s
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Strange Fruit 1944 novel by Lillian Smith  "Strange Fruit" [1944 novel] by Lillian Smith
Inspired by Billy Holiday's 1939 hit record. One hot Georgia August, a rebel child returns from World War I and declares his love for a local girl; but he is white and she is black – and she is pregnant with his child.
Harvest Books pb [7/92] for $9.89
Signet/NAL mass pb [3/48] out of print/used
Buccaneer Books hardcover [12/94] out of print/used
Reynal & Hichock hardcover [1944] out of print/used
One Hour 1959 novel by Lillian Smith   One Hour [1959 novel] by Lillian Smith
An early fictional attack on McCarthyism: "A child's shocking accusation brings tragic consequences to a brilliant scientist, his wife, and a town"
Univ NC Press 8x5¼ pb [9/94] out of print/many used
Univ NC Press 8½x5½ hardcover [9/94] out of print/used
Harcourt, Brace hardcover[1959] out of print/used
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expatriate Gertrude Stein [1874-1946]
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'Tender Buttons' Gertrude Stein fansite
EC's Gertrude Stein pages
Gertrude Stein pages at gURL.com

Two Lives / Gertrude & Alice   "Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice" [2007]
by Janet Malcolm

Yale Univ Press 7¾x5¼ hardcover [9/2007] for $16.50
publisher's book page
Library of America Gertrude Stein   Stein: Writings, 1903-1932 [1998]
Edited by Harriet Chessman & Catharine R. Stimpson

Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [3/98] for $29.20
includes posthumous novel "Q.E.D." [from 1903], "Three Lives" [3 novellas 1909], libretto "Four Saints In Three Acts" [1929], "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" [1933], and other short works
Stein: Writings, 1932-1946 [1998]
Edited by Harriet Chessman & Catharine R. Stimpson

Library of America 8x5 hardcover [3/98] for $29.20
includes "Lectures In America" [1934], "The Geographical History of America" [1936], libretto "Doctor Faustus Lights The Lights" [1938], children's book "The World Is Round" [1938], "Brewsie and Willie" [1946] and libretto "The Mother of Us All" [1949]

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John Steinbeck [1902-68] Page

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poet Wallace Stevens [1879-1955]
browse books • Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Poems-Wallace-Stevens/dp/0679726691/
"The Man With The Blue Guitar" [1937]

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Jesse Stuart [1906-84] of Kentucky
browse books • Wikipedia

Sue's Jesse Stuart fansite
Jesse Stuart Foundation [est. 1979]
Jesse Stuart State Nature Preserve in Greenup County, KY

Jesse Stuart Reader   "Jesse: The Biography of An American Writer, Jesse Hilton Stuart"
[1984] by H. Edward Richardson

McGraw-Hill hardcover [1/84] out of print/used
"A Jesse Stuart Reader: Stories & Poems" [McGraw-Hill 1963]
Edited by Jesse Stuart

Jesse Stuart Foundation 8½x5½ pb with study guide [9/2003] for $10.20
Jesse Stuart Foundation 9x6 hardcover [1/93] for $22.00
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Jim Thompson [1906-77] Page

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James Thurber [1894-1961] Page

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Nathanael West [1903-40]
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Library of America Nathanael West  
West: Novels and Other Writings [1997]
Edited by Sacvan Bercovitch

Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [8/97] out of print/used
includes novels "The Dream Life of Balso Snell" [1931], "Miss Lonelyhearts" [1933], "A Cool Million" [1934] & "The Day of The Locust" [1939], plus stories, film scripts & correspondence
Day of The Locust novel   "The Day of The Locust" [Jan 1939 classic] by Nathanael West
listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels (10/2005)
NAL pb [9/83] for $5.95
Amereon hardcover [12/97] for $19.95
DH Audio ABR [9/87] 2 tapes out of print/used
Day of The Locust movie   "The Day of The Locust" feature film [Paramount May 1975]
Directed by John Schlesinger; starring Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, William Atherton, Geraldine Page, Richard A. Dysart, Bo Hopkins, Pepe Serna, Lelia Goldoni & Billy Barty
Paramount widescreen color DVD [6/2004] for $14.23
Paramount color VHS [6/93] out of prodn/used
full credits from IMDb

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Edith Wharton [1862-1937]
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Edith Wharton Society [est. 1983]

Library of America Edith Wharton novels  

Library of America Edith Wharton College Edition  

Edith Wharton: Novels [1986] Edited by R.W.B. Lewis
Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [5/86] for $26.40
includes "The House of Mirth" [1905], "The Reef" [1912], "The Custom of The Country" [1913] and "The Age of Innocence" [1920]
Edith Wharton: Novellas and Other Writings [1990]
Edited by Cynthia Griffin Wolff

Library of America hardcover [4/90] for $29.25
includes "Madame de Treymes" [1907], "Ethan Frome" [1911], "Summer" [1917], "Old New York: Four Novellas" [1924], "The Mother's Recompense" [1925], and "A Backward Glance" [1934]
Edith Wharton: Collected Stories, 1891–1910 [2001]
Edited by Maureen Howard

Library of America 8&5¼ hardcover [1/2001] for $25.55
includes "The Touchstone" [1900], "Sanctuary", "The Eyes" and 35 other stories
Edith Wharton: Collected Stories, 1911–1937 [2001]
Edited by Maureen Howard

Library of America hardcover [2/2001] for $25.55
includes "Xingu" [1916], "The Marne", "A Bottle of Perrier", "All Souls", "Roman Fever" [1934] and 24 other stories
Edith Wharton: Selected Poems [2005]
Edited by Louis Auchincloss

American Poets Project/LOA 7½x4¼ hardcover [10/2005] for $15.60
Wharton: Four Novels [1996]
Edited by R.W.B. Lewis & Cynthia Griffin Wolff

Library of America College Editions 7¾x5 pb [10/96] for $13.95
includes "The House of Mirth" [1905], "Ethan Frome" [1911], "The Custom of The Country" [1913] and "The Age of Innocence" [1920]

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Thornton Wilder [1897-1975]
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The Thornton Wilder Society

The Eighth Day novel by Thornton Wilder   "The Eighth Day: A Novel" [1967 bestseller] by Thornton Wilder
Won the National Book Award, both murder mystery and philosophical story. Two families in a mining town in southern Illinois are blasted apart by the apparent murder of one father by the other; the accused killer miraculously escapes on the eve of his execution and his flight to freedom alters the fate of both men's wives and children.
Harper Perennial 7¾x5¼ pb [1/2007] for $11.48
Amereon Ltd. 9x6¼ hardcover [12/98] out of print/used
Harper & Row 8¼x5¾ hardcover [1967] out of print/many, many used
Library of America editions of Thornton Wilder edited by J.D. McClatchy   Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays and Writings On Theater [2007]
Edited by J.D. McClatchy

Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [3/2007] for $34.20
includes Pulitzer-winning "Our Town" [1938], Pulitzer-winning "The Skin of Our Teeth" [1942], "The Matchmaker" [1954], "Shadow of A Doubt" [1942 screenplay], 18 other full-length plays, six one-act plays, 14 uncollected plays, and 14 essays on theater
Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926–1948 [2009]
Edited by J.D. McClatchy

Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [9/2009] for $23.10  
includes "The Cabala" [1926], Pulitzer-winning "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" [1927], "The Woman of Andros" [1930], "Heaven’s My Destination" [1935], "The Ides of March" [1948], plus 6 stories & 4 essays

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Tennessee Williams [1911-83]
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Tennessee Williams Literary Festival in New Orleans, LA
Ole Miss Tennessee Williams site

"Remember Me To Tom" memoir by his mother

Life of Tennessee Williams  
"The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams" [1985]
by Donald Spoto

Da Capo Press 9x6 pb [9/97] for $18.95
Ballantine mass pb [3/86] out of print/many used
Little, Brown hardcover [3/85] out of print/many used
Library of America Tennessee Williams   Tennessee Williams: Plays, 1937–1955 [2000] Edited by Mel Gussow
Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [10/2000] for $26.40
includes "Spring Storm" [1937], "Not About Nightingales" [1938], "The Glass Menagerie" [1944], "A Streetcar Named Desire" [1947], "Summer and Smoke" [1948], "The Rose Tattoo" [1951], "Camino Real" [1953], Pulitzer Prize–winning "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" [1955] & 12 other plays
Tennessee Williams: Plays, 1957–1980 [2000] Edited by Mel Gussow
Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [10/2000] for $26.40
includes "Orpheus Descending" [1957], "Suddenly, Last Summer" [1958], "Sweet Bird of Youth" [1959], "Period of Adjustment" [1960], "The Night of The Iguana" [1961], "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore" [1963], "The Mutilated" [1966], "Kingdom of Earth" [1968], "Small Craft Warnings" [1972], "Out Cry" [1973], "Vieux Carrι" [1977] & "A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur" [1979]

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Thomas Wolfe [1900-38]
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Thomas Wolfe Web Site at University of North Carolina
Thomas Wolfe Memorial [est. 1949] in Asheville, NC
Thomas Wolfe Society [est. 1979]

Thomas Wolfe Illustrated Biography  
"Thomas Wolfe: An Illustrated Biography" [2007]
Edited by Ted Mitchell

Pegasus Books 10x7 pb [3/2007] for $17.16
Life of Thomas Wolfe   "Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe" [1987]
by David Herbert Donald

which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Harvard Univ Press 9x6 pb [1/2003] for $21.50
Little, Brown hardcover [3/89] out of print/many used
Ballantine/Fawcett pb [2/88] out of print/many used
Complete Short Stories of Thomas Wolfe   "The Complete Short Stories of Thomas Wolfe" [1989]
Edited by Francis E. Skipp, Foreword by James Dickey

Scribner/Collier 9x6 pb [5/89] for $27.50
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Jack Woodford [1894-1971]
{real name Josiah Pitts Woolfolk}
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Woodford Memorial Editions official website

"City Limits" novel [1932] by Jack Woodford
Woodford Press hardcover [1947] out of print/used
William Godwin, Inc. hardcover [1932] out of print/used

City Limits 1934 movie   "City Limits" feature film [Monogram Pictures April 1934]
A railroad tycoon under great pressure in a merger is sent on vacation by his doctor; the tycoon falls off his private railcar and lands in a hobo jungle, and learns how to really enjoy life in ways he never knew were possible. Directed by William Nigh; loosely adapted by George Waggner from the novel by Jack Woodford; starring Frank Craven, Sally Blane, Frank Albertson, Ray Walker, Claude Gillingwater, James Burke, Jimmy Conlin, Jane Keckley, Henry Roquemore, George 'Gabby' Hayes & George Cleveland
VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb

Trial and Error book by Jack Woodford  "Trial and Error: A Dithyramb On The Subject of Writing & Selling" [1935]
by Jack Woodford, Introduction by Arnold Gingrich, editor of Esquire

Kessinger Publng 8¾x6 pb [3/2007] for $23.52
Woodford Memorial Editions 8¼x5½ pb [6/80] out of print/used
Kessinger Publng 9¼x6½ hardcover [6/2008] for $34.92
Garden City Publng 7¾x5¼ hardcover [1940] out of print/used
book entry at Wikipedia
Writing and Selling book by Jack Woodford  "Writing and Selling" [1940]
by Jack Woodford, Introduction by Arnold Gingrich, editor of Esquire

Perma Giants Edition hardcover [1949] out of print/used
Star Books hardcover [1940] out of print/used
lobby card for "Father Steps Out" 1941 movie   "Father Steps Out" [Monogram Pictures July 1941]
remake of "City Limits" [1934] above; directed by Jean Yarbrough; script by George Waggner, without credit to Jack Woodford; starring Jed Prouty, Lorna Gray, Frank Albertson, Frank Faylen, John Dilson, Charlie Hall, Kathryn Sheldon & Tristram Coffin
VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb

How To Write and Sell A Novel book by Jack Woodford  "Why Write A Novel?" [Murray & Gee 1943] by Jack Woodford
later self-published as "How To Write and Sell A Novel"

HTWSN: Kessinger Publng 9x6 pb [3/2007] for $21.24
HTWSN: Kessinger Publng 9x6 hardcover [6/2008] for $32.64
HTWSN: Woodford Press hardcover [1948] out of print/used
"WWAN?" book entry at Wikipedia
Jack Woodford on Writing book edited by Jess E. Stewart  "Jack Woodford On Writing" [1980]
Compiled, selected, and edited by Jess E. Stewart

includes Introductory Notes, Writer's Cramp (complete), Trial and Error (excerpts), How To Write and Sell A Novel (excerpts), How To Write For Money (excerpts), Plotting (excerpts), and 'Citizen Arrest' (short story)
Woodford Memorial Editions pb [4/81] out of print/used

"The Ghost of Jack Woodford" biography [2005] by Keith Nichols
Woodford Memorial Editions pb [2005] out of print/scarce

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Harold Bell Wright [1872-1944]
browse books • IMDb listing [1917-64] • Wikipedia

"The Shepherd of The Hills [1919 silent]
"The Winning of Barbara Worth" [1926 silent] starring Ronald Colman, Vilma Bαnky & Gary Cooper
"The Shepherd of The Hills" [1928]
"The Shepherd of The Hills" [1941] starring John Wayne

Authors A to Z Books at Amazon.com
Authors A to Z Audiocassettes at Amazon.com
'American Writers' series on C-SPAN



The  Beats

'The Beat Generation' Page
at Maison d'Κtre Philosophy Bookstore

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Charles Bukowski [1920-94] Page

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Wm. S. Burroughs [1914-97] Page

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Gregory Corso [1930-2001] Page

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Diane DiPrima
browse books • Wikipedia

Diane DiPrima papers at University of Louisville, KY
official Diane DiPrima website
Blue Neon's Diane DiPrima pages

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
browse books • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

City Lights Booksellers & Publishers [est. 1953] of San Francisco, CA

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Allen Ginsberg [1926-97] Page

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Jack Kerouac [1922-69] Pages

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Ken Kesey [1935-2001] Page

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Dr. Timothy Leary [1920-96]
browse books • browse spoken word • browse DVDs • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

official Timothy Leary website [est. 1992]
'Declaration of Evolution' fansite
RS's Timothy Leary fansite [est. 1999]

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Michael McClure
browse books • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

official Michael McClure homepage
McClure-Manzarek site

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Henry Miller [1891-1980]
browse books • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

official Henry Miller website
Henry Miller bio at Monterey County [CA] Historical Society
SP's Henry Miller fansite

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Kenneth Patchen [1911-72]
browse books • Wikipedia

Poets.org's Kenneth Patchen page
official Kenneth Patchen website

Kenneth Patchen Rebel Poet  
"Kenneth Patchen: Rebel Poet in America" [2000]
by Larry Smith

Bottom Dog Press 9¼x6 hardcover [4/2000] for $25.95
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Gary Snyder
browse books • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

Poets.org's Gary Snyder page
Gary Snyder page at LitKicks
Gary Snyder homepage

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Anne Waldman
books • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

Naropa's Anne Waldman page
Poetspath's Anne Waldman page

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Allan Watts [1915-73] Pages

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