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 Lights bookstore, has died at his Bay Area home.
Ferlinghetti died Monday evening, according to Starr Sutherland, a friend who is working on a documentary on the fabled bookstore. The cause was interstitial lung disease, his son Lorenzo told The Washington Post. Ferlinghetti was 101.
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