The Portable Beat Reader (Viking portable library) - Softcover

Charters, Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140151028 ISBN 13: 9780140151022

Publisher: Viking, 1992

Synopsis

The Portable Beat Reader

About this title

Review:

"The best introduction I know of America's liveliest postwar literary movement"

"A deft and definitive collection. It catches the flavor of playful, serious defiance of the whole generation." --Gary Snyder

About the Author:

Ann Charters, professor of English at the University of Connecticut, has been interested in Beat writers since 1956. After completing her doctorate she worked with Jack Kerouac to compile his bibliography. She has written a literary study of Charles Olson and biographies of black entertainer Bert Williams, and (with her husband) the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. She was the general editor of the two-volume encyclopaedia The Beats: Literary Bohemians In Postwar America and has published a collection of her photographic portraits of well-known writers in the book Beats & Company. She has also edited Jack Kerouac's On the Road for Penguin Modern Classics.

Ann Charters, professor of English at the University of Connecticut, has been interested in Beat writers since 1956. After completing her doctorate she worked with Jack Kerouac to compile his bibliography. She has written a literary study of Charles Olson and biographies of black entertainer Bert Williams, and (with her husband) the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. She was the general editor of the two-volume encyclopaedia The Beats: Literary Bohemians In Postwar America and has published a collection of her photographic portraits of well-known writers in the book Beats & Company. She has also edited Jack Kerouac's On the Road for Penguin Modern Classics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0140151028
• ISBN 13: 9780140151022
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 688