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Since the City Lights founding by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter Martin in 1953, the bookstore has thrived in San Francisco, thanks lately to publisher Elaine Katzenberger who has focused on female writers and authors of color

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...

Poet, City Lights bookstore owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti dies at 101 He published Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl,” for which he was arrested on obscenity charges, and was a central figure in the literary life of San Francisco.     Author Lawrence Ferlinghetti recites a poem after he was awarded the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community at the National Book Awards in New York, on Nov. 16, 2005. Ferlinghetti, a poet, publisher and bookseller, has ...