Lawrence Ferlinghetti, an acclaimed poet and longtime proprietor of City Lights, the San Francisco bookstore and avant-garde publishing house that catapulted the Beat Generation to fame and ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, publisher, bookseller and activist who helped launch the Beat movement in the 1950s and embodied its curious and rebellious spirit well into the ...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti was the opposite of the flamboyant literary bad boys drawn to the bohemian haven he nurtured in 1950s San Francisco. Unlike Beat novelist Jack Kerouac and poet Allen Ginsberg ...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, pictured in 1959, at the age of 40. (Courtesy of City Lights Bookstore) Ever since the iconic poet, painter and publisher helped spark a literary renaissance in the 1950s with ...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the Beat poet, publisher and founder of San Francisco’s beloved City Lights bookstore, has died aged 101. He passed away from lung disease on Monday evening, confirmed the ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, publisher, bookseller and activist who helped launch the Beat movement in the 1950s and embody its curious and rebellious spirit well into the ...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “The Night Before Thinking” (1990), oil paint and black conte stick on paper, 23 3⁄4 x 18 inches; 30 x 24 inches matted.

Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast. U. ntil recently, Lawrence Ferlinghetti was vacationing in Mexico, popping into City Lights — ...

His biographies of Charles Bukowski and Lawrence Ferlinghetti came to overshadow his own work. “I would love an interview,” he once said, “where Bukowski is not mentioned.” By Michael S ...