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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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American artist, writer and activist (1919–2021)
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919–2021) was an American poet, translator, publisher, and military officer associated with the Beat Generation movement. Born in Yonkers, he served in the United States Navy and later resided in San Francisco and Paris. His education included studies at Northfield Mount Hermon School, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Columbia University, and the University of Paris. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and received the Eagle Scout and Robert Frost Medal awards.
Ferlinghetti’s literary output includes works such as *Pictures of the gone world*, *Endless life*, *Interim pad*, and *A political pamphlet*. His papers are archived at Southern Methodist University, and his works are held in the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He died in San Francisco from interstitial lung disease.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 172
Top works
- Pictures of the gone world
- Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum
- Endless life
- Interim pad
- A political pamphlet
via Open Library + Wikidata
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
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1919
- Active to
- 2021
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 6,527
- Total plays
- 31,371
Tags
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
· 2014 · cited 26,141x
- <i>Planck</i>
2018 results
· 2020 · cited 13,357x
- 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 11,853x
- Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction by Locally Linear Embedding
· 2000 · cited 11,563x
- Improved Synthesis of Graphene Oxide
· 2010 · cited 11,429x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “The pennycandystore beyond the Elis where I firstfell in lovewith unreality”
- “It was a face which darkness could killin an instant”
- “Poetry is the shadow cast by our imaginations.”
- “I was the all-American boy, the Eagle Scout. I remember I was at my girlfriend's apartment, and there were these strange publications like The Nation and The New Republic. I started looking at them and thought, "Gee, this is weird; people saying things against America?" It was an awakening. On the East Coast, I'd never even heard of conscientious objectors.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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 )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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".
Early life
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