The launch of Sputnik 1 inspired U. S. writer Herb Caen to coin the term " beatnik " in an article about the Beat Generation in the San Francisco Chronicle on 2 April 1958.

He was the grandfather of William S. Burroughs the Beat Generation writer, and great-grandfather of William S. Burroughs, Jr., who was also a writer.

* Beat ( 2000 film ), a film about writer William Seward Burroughs

An alleyway between Columbus and Grant Avenues is named for Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac, who once lived there and frequented the famous City Lights Bookstore on the corner of Columbus and Broadway as well as the numerous nearby bars and coffee shops.

* John Clellon Holmes — American writer and poet associated with the " Beat Generation " crowd.

At the end of 1980, Glenn O ' Brien cast Freddy, along with fellow Lower East Side graffiti writer Lee Quinones, in the film New York Beat ( later released as Downtown 81 ).

One-time Beat writer LeRoi Jones / Amiri Baraka helped initiate the Black Arts movement.

The situation changed in 1998 when Shakespeare scholar and " literary detective " Don Foster-who had gained publicity by correctly identifying Joe Klein as the author of Primary Colors-fingered an obscure Beat poet and writer, Tom Hawkins, as the author of the letters.

He has pointed to an obscure Beat writer, Tom Hawkins, as the author of the Wanda Tinasky letters, which some had previously speculated to be the work of Thomas Pynchon.

Shortly after returning to New York in 1957, Frank met Beat writer Jack Kerouac on the sidewalk outside a party and showed him the photographs from his travels.

Some 3, 500 copies were printed by Beat writer Charles Plymell.

Los Angeles Times writer Paul Grein wrote a segment titled " The influence of Madonna and Janet Jackson ", reporting Debbie Gibson's manager Doug Breitbart claimed " Madonna has brought back a really strong, melodic component to pop music ", while Teen Beat editor Maggie Murphy remarked " Janet Jackson may have started this more than anyone else.

Kaddish also known as Kaddish for Naomi Ginsberg ( 1894-1956 ) is a poem by Beat writer Allen Ginsberg about his mother Naomi and her death on June 9, 1956.

One writer associated with the Beat Generation who appears most often on lists of postmodern writers is William S. Burroughs.

The play The Man That Lovelock Couldn't Beat by New Zealand writer Dean Parker featured a fictitious character-Tommy Morehu-who travelled to Spain for the People's Olympiad, and was later killed in the Spanish Civil War.

Tristessa is a novella by Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac set in Mexico City.

* A book entitled Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings was printed by the Viking Press in 1991 and is an anthology of American Beat writer Jack Kerouac's early work.

* Yuriko Nishiyama, manga writer, including Harlem Beat.

Fontana has been a writer / producer for such series as Oz ( which he also created ), The Jury, The Beat, The Bedford Diaries, Homicide: Life on the Street, St.

* Beat Cops actor writer producer ( 2001 )

Smith's ashes are in the care of his friend, Rosebud Feliu-Pettet, writer and longtime participant in New York's Beat scene, who has been described by Igliori as Smith's " spiritual wife.

Sinclair worked as a jazz writer for Down Beat magazine from 1964 to 1965, being an outspoken advocate for the newly emerging Free Jazz Avant Garde movement.

Said spoken words came courtesy of Justin Warfield, novelist Will Self ( continuing the Beat tradition of mixing heroin with writing ), and writer / musician Leslie Winer.

In 1886, the American Arithmometer Company was established in St. Louis, Missouri to produce and sell an adding machine invented by William Seward Burroughs ( grandfather of Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs ).

From the second half of the 1950s, Beat Generation writers like William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg wrote about and took drugs, including cannabis and Benzedrine, raising awareness and helping to popularise their use.

In the 1950s, the Beat generation included speculative writers such as William S. Burroughs.

William S. Burroughs, a core member of the Beat Generation and a very influential postmodern novelist, developed what he called the " cut-up technique " with former surrealist Brion Gysin — in which chance is used to dictate the composition of a text from words cut out of other sources — referring to it as the " Surrealist Lark " and recognizing its debt to the techniques of Tristan Tzara.

Among the humor books, Beat, Beat, Beat was a 1959 Signet paperback of cartoons by Phi Beta Kappa Princeton graduate William F. Brown, who looked down on the movement from his position in the TV department of the Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn advertising agency.

William Carlos Williams was another who had a strong impact on the Beat poets, encouraging poets like Lew Welch and writing an introduction for the book publication of Ginsberg's Howl ( 1955 ).

Being fans of Beat Generation literature, Fagen and Becker named the band after " Steely Dan III from Yokohama ", a strap-on dildo referred to in the William S. Burroughs novel Naked Lunch.

Allen Ginsberg's Howl ( 1956 ), William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch ( 1959 ) and Jack Kerouac's On the Road ( 1957 ) are among the best known examples of Beat literature.

Though the Beat aesthetic posited itself against T. S. Eliot's creed of strict objectivity and literary modernism's new classicism, certain modernist poets were major influences on the Beats, including Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and H. D ..

Later the movement of writers became known as the Beat Generation, and included works and authors as varied as Jack Kerouac ’ s On the Road ( 1957 ) and William S. Burroughs ’ s Naked Lunch ( 1959 ).

The Beat writers Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Gregory Corso followed in the mid-1950s and early 1960s.

In the United States, frequently shoplifted books include ones by authors Charles Bukowski, Jim Thompson, Philip K. Dick, Martin Amis, Paul Auster, Georges Bataille, William S. Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, Italo Calvino, Don DeLillo, Raymond Chandler, Michel Foucault, Dashiell Hammett, Jack Kerouac and other Beat generation writers, Jeanette Winterson, Chuck Palahniuk, Haruki Murakami, Jeffrey Eugenides, and Mark Z. Danielewski.

Poet Allen Ginsberg bought a farm there in the 1960s, and the town became a haven and destination point for many of the major personalities of the Beat scene: William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky, Herbert Huncke, Ray Bremser, Anne Waldman, Robert Creeley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Harry Smith, Mary Beach, Claude Pelieu and many others all spent time either living or visiting there.

William Carlos Williams was another who had a strong impact on the Beat poets, encouraging poets like Lew Welch and writing an introduction for the book publication of Ginsberg's seminal poem, Howl.

Beat icon William S. Burroughs chronicled this problem ( amongst many others ) in his novel Naked Lunch.

Here he met the likes of Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs who would not only become the characters in the book but also form the core of the Beat Generation.

In the twentieth century United States, the bohemian impulse was famously seen in the 1940s hipsters, the 1950s Beat generation ( exemplified by writers such as William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti ), the much more widespread 1960s counterculture, and 1970s hippies.

Charles Olson ( 27 December 1910 – 10 January 1970 ), was a second generation American modernist poet who was a link between earlier figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance.