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Lawrence Ferlinghetti's place in San Francisco literary history


Gary Kamiya April 21, 2021Updated: April 21, 2021, 9:29 am
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, owner of City Lights Bookstore, led a fight to change the name of Adler Place to Jack Kerouac Alley. City Lights Bookstore is now at Columbus Avenue and Jack Kerouac Alley in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood. Photo: Scott Sommerdorf, The Chronicle 1987
Lawrence Ferlinghetti was an essential part of San Francisco’s literary scene from 1953, the year he and Peter Martin opened City Lights Pocket Book Shop, to  Feb. 22, 2021, when he died at the patriarchal age of 101. Not even Herb Caen, who filed his daily Chronicle columns for nearly 60 years, can match the longevity of Ferlinghetti’s influence on their beloved (and in both cases, adopted) city. ....

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JONAH RASKIN : OBITUARY | Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021)


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By Jonah Raskin |
SONOMA COUNTY, Calif He was a poet, a painter, a publisher, and a bookstore owner who helped to give birth to the writers of the Beat Generation, especially to the raucous work of Allen Ginsberg. Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded City Lights Books in 1953, along with fellow New Yorker, Peter Martin, who soon departed from San Francisco and returned to the East. Ferlinghetti died on February 23, 2021, at the age of 101. His
Coney Island of the Mind has sold more than a million copies since it was first published in 1958.
Two years earlier, he published Ginsberg’s ....

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