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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and titan of the Beat era, dies at 101 Elaine Woo © (Stacey Lewis / Stacey Lewis) Lawrence Ferlinghetti outside City Lights Bookstore in 2013. (Stacey Lewis) Lawrence Ferlinghetti was the opposite of the flamboyant literary bad boys drawn to the bohemian haven he nurtured in 1950s San Francisco. Unlike Beat novelist Jack Kerouac and poet Allen Ginsberg, he was known for neither public drunkenness nor public nudity. Tall and lean, he swam daily and ...

Poet, Beat-era titan Ferlinghetti dies at 101 American Beat poets Lawrence Ferlinghetti, left, and Allen Ginsberg at the Albert Memorial in South Kensington, London, on June 11, 1965. (M. Stroud/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images/TNS) M. Stroud Published: 2/23/2021 3:52:13 PM Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the San Francisco poet, publisher and bookseller who played a leading role in West Coast literary history as a champion of Beat writer Allen Ginsberg and co-founder of the legendary City Light...

Cultural legends who died in 2020 Sean Connery, Kirk Douglas, Christo and Ennio Morricone. In this picture gallery, we bid farewell to iconic figures who died in 2020. Kirk Douglas Legendary actor Kirk Douglas was considered one of the greatest icons of the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. One of his most memorable roles was as the slave Spartacus in Stanley Kubricks film of the same name. In 1996, he was awarded an honorary Oscar "for his 50 years as a creative and moral force in the film commu...