To avoid jail time, Ginsberg pleaded insanity, spending time in the university's mental health facilities. Ginsberg graduated from Columbia in 1948, but in the following year was involved as an accomplice in a robbery. Ginsberg started to focus on his writing during the mid-1940s while also exploring his attraction to men. Burroughs, who would all become literary icons of a revolutionary cultural movement. While there he met former Columbia student Jack Kerouac and William S.
The young Ginsberg, who kept a journal from his pre-teen years and took to the poetry of Walt Whitman in high school, went on to attend Columbia University.
His mother Naomi had immigrated from Russia to the states while his father Louis was a poet and teacher. Irwin Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1926, in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in the city of Paterson. Allen Ginsberg was one of the founding fathers of the Beat Generation with his revolutionary poem "Howl." Ginsberg was a prolific writer who also championed gay rights and anti-war movements, protesting the Vietnam War and coining the phrase "Flower Power." Even with his countercultural background, he became recognized as one of American's foremost writers and artistic icons.
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