Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation

by Ann Charters, Samuel Charters

Overview

A biography of the two comrades whose friendship defined what it meant to be one of The Beats

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781604735802
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Publication date:	09/27/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	464
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Ann Charters, Storrs, Connecticut, is professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut, where she taught for more than thirty years. She is the author and editor of numerous books on writers of the Beat Generation, including Beat Down to Your Soul: What Was the Beat Generation?, The Portable Beat Reader, and Kerouac: A Biography.

Samuel Charters, the eminent historian of jazz and blues music, is the author of A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz (University Press of Mississippi), the award-winning The Roots of the Blues, and numerous other titles.

Hometown:

Connecticut

Date of Birth:

November 10, 1936

Place of Birth:

Bridgeport, Connecticut

Education:

B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1957; M.A., Columbia University, 1959; Ph.D., 1965