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Min Lee / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 In the spring of 1944, as the Second World War neared its turning point, the first skirmishes of the generational battle that would define postwar America were taking place in a lecture hall at Columbia University. When Allen Ginsberg, then a seventeen-year-old freshman, signed up to study the Great Books with Lionel Trilling, neither one of them could have suspected that they were about to begin a lifelong friendship that was also a mortal combat—over literature and politics, morality and maturity, liberalism and radicalism. The Sixties, historians have variously said, started with the assassination of John F. Kennedy, or the Montgomery Bus Boycott, or Elvis Presley’s appearance on the Ed Sullivan show.
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Welcome to Allen Ginsberg dot org, the website of the Allen Ginsberg Estate. With our access to the vast collection of Ginsberg material, there's really no excuse not to have a totally great site! We hope to keep this site as accurate with information as possible and welcome any feedback, corrections, suggestions, etc. Jump in and explore his life chronology , skim the select bibliography , browse the galleries of photos by Allen himself , or by friends , or even Allen's doodle inventory !