Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Sign in to saveAmerican artist, writer and activist (1919–2021)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1919-03-24
- Died
- 2021-02-22
- Works
- 172
Top works
- Pictures of the gone world
- Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum
- Endless life
- Interim pad
- A political pamphlet
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Film & TV
Acting
Known for
- The Beat Bomb — himself2022
- Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder — Self2009
- Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press — Self2008
- The Darwin Awards — Lawrence Ferlinghetti2007
- The War Prayer — Minister2005
- The Joy of Life — Voiceover2005
- The Last Tears from Planet Earth2003
- Fernanda Pivano: A Farewell to Beat — Se stesso2001
- The Source — Self1999
- On the Road to Desolation — Self1997
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 6,527
- Total plays
- 31,371
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born Lawrence Ferling on March 24, 1919)[1] is an American poet and painter, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. Author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, he is best known for A Coney Island of the Mind (New York: New Directions, 1958), a collection of poems that has been translated into nine languages, with sales of over 1,000,000 copies. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Lawrence+Ferlinghetti">Read more
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context
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- <i>Planck</i>
2018 results
· 2020 · cited 12,653x
- Recommendations for Cardiac Chamber Quantification by Echocardiography in Adults: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
· 2015 · cited 11,521x
- Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction by Locally Linear Embedding
· 2000 · cited 11,493x
- Improved Synthesis of Graphene Oxide
· 2010 · cited 11,303x
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Key facts
- Born
- Lawrence Monsanto Ferling , ( 1919-03-24 ) March 24, 1919, Yonkers, New York , U.S.
- Died
- February 22, 2021 (2021-02-22) (aged 101) , San Francisco, California, U.S.
- Occupation
- Poet activist essayist painter publisher
- Alma mater
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ( BA ) Columbia University ( MA ) University of Paris (PhD)
- Literary movement
- Beat poetry
- Years active
- 1940s–2021
- Spouse
- Selden Kirby-Smith ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1951 – 1976 )
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Key dates
- Born
- 24 March 1919
- Died
- 22 February 2021
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lawrence
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Yonkers
- Place of death
- San Francisco
- Occupation
- political activist
- Languages spoken
- French
- Field of work
- visual arts
- Movement
- Beat Generation
Article
Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti (né Ferling; March 24, 1919 – February 22, 2021) was an American poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. An author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, Ferlinghetti was best known for his second collection of poems, A Coney Island of the Mind (1958), which has been translated into nine languages and sold over a million copies. When Ferlinghetti turned 100 in March 2019, the city of San Francisco turned his birthday, March 24, into "Lawrence Ferlinghetti Day".
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