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February 26, 2021
When Lawrence Ferlinghetti died this week at age 101, nearly one month shy of his 102nd birthday, many of my friends, even writer friends, expressed surprise on social media.
I didn’t even know he was still alive!
Indeed, Ferlinghetti outlived all the younger Beat writers he once published, including Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Greg Corso. When
The New York Times, in a 2005 interview, asked him why, he answered, “Kerouac drank himself to death, and Burroughs, when he was young, thought the healthiest person was one who had enough money to stay on heroin all his life. I really never got into drugs. I smoked a little dope, and I did a little LSD, but that was it. I was afraid of it, frankly. I don’t like to be out of control.”
D-Day Veteran Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet and Founder of City Lights, Dead at 101
FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2005 file photo, author Lawrence Ferlinghetti reads 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. Ferlinghetti, one of the last links to the early days of the Beat poetry movement, never doubted the artistry of Bob Dylan or his worthiness of the Nobel prize. Ferlinghetti said that decades ago he had hoped the singer-songwriter would release his material in print form. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams, File)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and founder of City Lights, dead at 101
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights Bookstore, which he co-founded, with Peter D. Martin, in 1953.John O’Hara / The Chronicle 2001Show MoreShow Less
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti at Caffe Trieste in North Beach in 2006.Deanne Fitzmaurice / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s copy of T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets,” his most treasured book, was given to him by the mother of his girlfriend in Greenwich Village in 1943.Courtesy Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2017Show MoreShow Less
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti with copies of “Howl and Other Poems” in 1957.Bob Campbell / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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