Author Lawrence Ferlinghetti appears in Oct. 8, 1988 (AP Photo/Frankie Ziths, File)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, publisher, bookseller and activist who helped launch the Beat movement in the 1950s and embodied its curious and rebellious spirit well into the 21st century, has died at age 101.
Ferlinghetti, a San Francisco institution, died Monday at his home, his son Lorenzo Ferlinghetti said. A month shy of his 102nd birthday, Ferlinghetti died “in his own room,” holding the hands of his son and his son’s girlfriend, “as he took his last breath.” The cause of death was lung disease. Ferlinghetti had received the first dose of the COVID vaccine last week, his son said Tuesday.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the last great poet of the Beat Generation who helped create America s counter-culture movement in the 1950s, dies from lung disease a month shy of his 102nd birthday
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who helped to establish the counter-culture movement of 1950s America through his City Lights bookshop and publishers, has died
Ferlinghetti was 101
Ferlinghetti, a San Francisco institution, died Monday at his home, his son Lorenzo Ferlinghetti said
A month shy of his 102nd birthday, Ferlinghetti died in his own room, holding the hands of his son and his son s girlfriend, as he took his last breath
The cause of death was lung disease
Poet, publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who helped launch the Beat movement, passes away at 101
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Last Updated: Feb 24, 2021, 11:42 AM IST
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In 2012, Ferlinghetti won the Janus Pannonius International Poetry Prize from the Hungarian PEN Club. When he learned the country s right-wing government was a sponsor, he turned the award down.
SAN FRANCISCO: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, publisher, bookseller and activist who helped launch the Beat movement in the 1950s and embodied its curious and rebellious spirit well into the 21st century, has died at age 101. Ferlinghetti, a San Francisco institution, died Monday at his home, his son Lorenzo Ferlinghetti said. A month shy of his 102nd birthday, Ferlinghetti died in his own room, holding the hands of his son and his son s girlfriend, as he took his last breath. The cause of death was lung disease. Ferlinghetti had received the first dose of the Covid vaccine last week, his son said Tuesday.
Beat poet, publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti dies at 101
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Ferlinghetti was known for his City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, an essential meeting place for the Beats and other bohemians in the 1950s and beyond Poet, publisher and bookseller Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who helped launch and perpetuate the Beat movement, has died. He was 101.
Ferlinghetti died at his San Francisco home on Monday, his son Lorenzo Ferlinghetti told
The Associated Press on Tuesday. The cause was lung disease.
His father died “in his own room,” holding the hands of his son and his son’s girlfriend, “as he took his last breath, his son said.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, publisher, bookseller and activist who helped launch the Beat movement in the 1950s and embodied its cur