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Facts about Beat Generation Authors and Literature
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City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, founded by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, became a central gathering place and publisher for Beat Generation writers.
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The term 'Beat Generation' was coined by Jack Kerouac and popularized through a 1952 article by John Clellon Holmes in The New York Times Magazine.
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William S. Burroughs wrote Naked Lunch using a cut-up technique, assembling fragments of text in a deliberately non-linear, collage-like structure.
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Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road, a central text of the Beat Generation, was famously typed on a continuous scroll of paper.
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Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl, a defining Beat Generation work, was the subject of a landmark 1957 obscenity trial in San Francisco.