Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (1919 – )
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Description:American poet, painter, liberal activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. Compatriot of Allen Ginsberg.
SIG – Signature in black marker pen on the image side of a postcard featuring The City Lights Bookstore (founded in 1953 by Ferlinghetti and Peter Martin), one of the first independent bookstores in the U.S.
Ferlinghetti, a leader of the Beat Generation, has published poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration. He is, perhaps, best known for A Coney Island of the Mind (1958), a collection of poems that has been translated into nine languages, with sales of over 1 million copies.