Beat Generation
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...the novelists Jack Kerouac and Chandler Brossard, numerous poets (e.g., Kenneth Rexroth , Allen Ginsberg , Lawrence Ferlinghetti , and Gregory Corso), and others, many of whom worked in and around San Francisco. Perhaps the only true nihilist...