Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and titan of the Beat era, dies at 101
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 biked to work at City Lights, the San Francisco bookshop that became a landmark of intellectual free...