The Beat Generation

This section is reserved for biographies of Beat writers. If you want to help fill these pages, please write to editor@beatdom.

Until we’re done gathering material, keep an eye on our Beatdom Archives for all things Beat.

To learn about the characters in Kerouac’s novels, click here.

Also, here’s a guide to the films of the Beat Generation.

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