The Beat Generation: The 50s And 60s In Literature And Art

Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs met at Columbia University in 1944. They shared radically advanced ideas based on spontaneity and freedom in their writing and lifestyles. In the years that followed, their books would revolutionize American literature. The same principles would be absorbed by the New York School of painters and musicians, all of whom hung out at the Cedar and San Remo Bars in Greenwich Village.

ED ADLER, PhD, is a painter, professor and author of  Departed Angels, Jack Kerouac, The Lost Paintings and was a friend of many of the key personalities of the Beat Generation. A faculty member of NYU for 20 years, he has taught at the Sorbonne and was active in Beat “hangoutology!”