{"id":16811,"date":"2013-06-23T00:06:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T00:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisblogrules.com\/?p=16811"},"modified":"2013-05-11T08:02:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T08:02:36","slug":"on-the-road-with-the-beats-five-beat-writers-who-changed-the-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/on-the-road-with-the-beats-five-beat-writers-who-changed-the-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Road With The Beats: Five Beat Writers Who Changed The Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Beat Generation was a unique cast of characters who convened at the Beat Hotel to create some of the most authentic and real poetry and prose that ever existed. The Beats wrote about real life as it happened. They were also infamous for their notorious lifestyles as well as their writings. Today we celebrate the forefathers of the Beat Generation; John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, \u00a0Allen Ginsberg, William\u00a0Burroughs, and Neil Cassady.\u00a0<\/p>\n

John Clellon Holmes<\/h2>\n
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\n(March 12, 1926 \u2013 March 30, 1988)<\/p>\n

Holmes was considered the author of the first “beat” novel “Go” in 1952. The novel featured his life events with such luminaries as Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and Allen Ginsberg. Considered Kerouac’s closest friend, Holmes traveled and documented their adventures. The word “beat” in the context of the writers happened when Jack Kerouac told Holmes “You know, this is really a beat generation.” and Holmes used it in an article published in The New York Times Magazine entitled “This Is the Beat Generation” on November 16, 1952. Holmes credited Kerouac with the term and in turn inspired the novel “Go”. Holmes wrote fourteen books of poems and essays before dying of cancer in 1988.<\/p>\n

Jack Kerouac<\/span><\/h2>\n

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(March 12, 1922 \u2013 October 21, 1969)<\/p>\n

As an American novelist and poet, Kerouac was best known for “On The Road”, a novel he completed in April 1951. The autobiography describes Kerouac and his friend Neal Cassady’s road trip across the United States and Mexico in the late 1940’s. The book also showed the relationship between Kerouac and other beat writers of that era. Kerouac also stated that the novel was, in part, a trip in search of god. He was arguably the most recognized of the beat writers.<\/p>\n

Allen Ginsberg<\/span><\/h2>\n