| Allen Ginsberg  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!
[1] Beth Israel Hospital, Newark, NJ.
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
Fair Play for Cuba Committee
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)
Traveled to the USSR 1985
Assisted by the ACLU
Russian Ancestry
Jewish Ancestry
Risk Factors: Depression, Hepatitis C, Diabetes, Orgone, Psilocybin, Marijuana, Peyote
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (11-Jun-2019)
The Source (23-Jan-1999) · Himself
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg (18-Feb-1994) · Himself
Road Scholar (16-Jul-1993) · Himself
Berkeley in the Sixties (Jan-1990) · Himself
Heavy Petting (7-Sep-1989) · Himself
What Happened to Kerouac? (16-Apr-1986) · Himself
Before Stonewall (15-Sep-1984) · Himself
Renaldo and Clara (25-Jan-1978)
Ciao! Manhattan (Feb-1972) · Himself
Dynamite Chicken (20-Jan-1971) · Himself
Me and My Brother (2-Feb-1969) · Himself
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London (1967) · Himself
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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