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San Francisco poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights bookstore founder, has died aged 101
CNN
2/24/2021
Oscar Holland, CNN
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Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti at his home in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, March 1, 2018. Ferlinghetti will be 99 on March 24. (Photo by Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the Beat poet, publisher and founder of San Francisco s beloved City Lights bookstore, has died aged 101.
He passed away from lung disease on Monday evening, confirmed the store s vice president and director of marketing and publicity, Stacey Lewis.
One of the last surviving members of the Beat Generation, Ferlinghetti played a key role in expanding the literary movement s focus to the West Coast. An online tribute, posted to City Lights website on Tuesday, said that Ferlinghetti had been instrumental in democratizing ....

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