Ginsberg

Covering his life from his birth in 1926 through his career as a distinguished poet and professor, this is a biography of the beat poet Allen Ginsberg. In part thanks to early friendships with renegades such as Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and Neal Cassidy, and his publication of the electrifying Howl, Ginsberg occupies an enduring place in American literature. Barry Miles draws on his long friendship with the poet and on Ginsberg's own journals and correspondence to give a full account of his life up to his death in 1997.