AKA Irwin Allen Ginsberg

Born: 3-Jun-1926
Birthplace: Newark, NJ [1]
Died: 5-Apr-1997
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: Cancer - Liver
Remains: Buried, Gomel Chesed Cemetery, Newark, NJ

Gender: Male
Religion: Buddhist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Gay
Occupation: Poet

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Howl!

Father: Louis Ginsberg (b. 1895, d. 1976)
Mother: Naomi Ginsberg (d. 1956 in an asylum)
Slept with: Neal Cassady
Slept with: William S. Burroughs
Slept with: Jack Kerouac
Boyfriend: Peter Orlovsky (non-monogamous, from 1954 until Ginsberg's death)

    High School: East Side High School, Patterson, NJ (1943)
    University: Columbia University
    Professor: Brooklyn College

    American Academy of Arts and Letters 1974
    North American Man/Boy Love Association
    Youth International Party
    National Book Award for Poetry for The Fall of America (1974)
    Esalen
    Shock Treatment
    Deported from Cuba (1965)
    Russian Ancestry
    Jewish Ancestry
    Risk Factors: Depression, Hepatitis C, Diabetes, Orgone, Psilocybin, Marijuana, Peyote

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    New York: A Documentary Film (14-Nov-1999) Himself
    Renaldo and Clara (25-Jan-1978)
    Chappaqua (1966)
    Pull My Daisy (11-Nov-1959)

Rotten Library Page:
Allen Ginsberg

Author of books:
Howl and Other Poems (1956, poetry)
Kaddish and Other Poems (1961, poetry)
Collected Poems 1947-1980 (1984, poetry)

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