Beat Generation
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- | Novelist [[Jack Kerouac]] is a prominant author on the beat generation. The film rights for his first major publication "[[On the Road]]" was bought by Francis Ford Coppola in the first year of its publication, and is now being produced for cinema release in 2007. It was not until Marlon Brando's death, that letters from Jack Kerouac were discovered describing his own personal opinions as to how "On the Road" should be filmed. | + | The '''Beat Generation''' was a group of American [[writers]] who came to prominence in the late [[1950s]] and early [[1960s]]. [[Jack Kerouac]]'s ''[[On the Road]]'' (1957), [[Allen Ginsberg]]'s ''[[Howl]]'' (1956), and [[William S. Burroughs]]'s ''[[Naked Lunch]]'' (1959) are often considered their most important works. |
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The Beat Generation was a group of American writers who came to prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957), Allen Ginsberg's Howl (1956), and William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch (1959) are often considered their most important works.
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