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Allen Ginsberg

1926 - 1997

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Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, sex, multiculturalism, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions. Best known for his poem "Howl", Ginsberg denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Allen Ginsberg is the 638th most popular writer (down from 584th in 2019), the 837th most popular biography from United States (down from 598th in 2019) and the 70th most popular American Writer.

Allen Ginsberg is most famous for his poem "Howl" and his involvement in the Beat Generation.

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Among writers, Allen Ginsberg ranks 638 out of 7,302. Before him are Kōbō Abe, Meera, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aratus, and A. J. Cronin. After him are Hermann Broch, Mikael Agricola, Hellanicus of Lesbos, Giambattista Basile, Tibor Sekelj, and Anton Makarenko.

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Among people born in 1926, Allen Ginsberg ranks 38. Before him are Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Paul Bocuse, Leopoldo Galtieri, Henry Molaison, Ivan Illich, and Valdas Adamkus. After him are John Coltrane, Ingeborg Bachmann, David Attenborough, Jack Brabham, Necmettin Erbakan, and Tsung-Dao Lee. Among people deceased in 1997, Allen Ginsberg ranks 33. Before him are Hans Eysenck, Bohumil Hrabal, Roy Lichtenstein, Fred Zinnemann, Edward Mills Purcell, and Alfred Hershey. After him are Aldo Rossi, Helenio Herrera, John Eccles, Chaim Herzog, Dora Maar, and Chien-Shiung Wu.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Allen Ginsberg ranks 837 out of 20,380. Before him are G. W. Bailey (1944), Ray Liotta (1954), John Carpenter (1948), Krist Novoselic (1965), Roy J. Glauber (1925), and Merrick Garland (1952). After him are King Oliver (1881), John Dillinger (1903), Steve Perry (1949), Jason Robards (1922), Theodore Maiman (1927), and Linda Lovelace (1949).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Allen Ginsberg ranks 70. Before him are Washington Irving (1783), Bell hooks (1952), Ellen G. White (1827), Theodore Dreiser (1871), Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875), and Patricia Highsmith (1921). After him are Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811), Alvin Toffler (1928), Thomas Friedman (1953), William F. Buckley Jr. (1925), John Irving (1942), and Ed McBain (1926).

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