The Ultimate, Illustrated Beats Chronology by Robert Niemi - ISBN: 9781593764111
Paperback
“Timeline detailing the life events and literary accomplishments of the writers who became known as the Beat Generation”–P. [4] of cover.

The Ultimate, Illustrated Beats Chronology

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  • Paperback

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    2 August 2011

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Summary

Did you know that less than two weeks after Jack Kerouac reported to the Newport, RI U.S. Naval Training Station (the same month that the German 6th Army was surrendering at Stalingrad), he was discharged, diagnosed with a “Constitutional Psychopathic State, Schizoid Personality”? That just a few months later, William Burroughs moved from Chicago to New York, where he took a small apartment at 69 Bedford Street and began a heroin addiction that was to last until 1956? That meanwhile, Gregory …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781593764111
ISBN-10:1593764111
Author:Robert Niemi
Publisher:Soft Skull Press
Imprint:Soft Skull Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:2 August 2011
Weight:241g
Dimensions:228mm x 107mm
About The Author

Robert Niemi

Robert Niemi is a Professor of English and American Studies at St. Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont. He is the author of several previous nonfiction and reference works including History in the Media- Film & Television and a biography of Russell Banks. He lives in Vermont.

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