The result was a kind of Beat family photo album: informal, affectionate, full of personality—and personalities. We see, among others, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Neal Cassady and Orlovsky.

Alongside Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs was one of the principal figures associated with the Beat movement of the 1950s and 60s.

Here, Kerouac met future Beat luminaries, William Burroughs, who turned him onto drugs, and Allen Ginsberg, who stoked his love for literature.

And Ginsberg (1926-1997), alongside authors like Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, was one of the foremost Beat authors.

A contemporary of groundbreaking writers Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, Ginsberg changed the landscape of American poetry forever with his apocalyptic 1956 work Howl.

It’s no secret that the Beat Generation, led by William S Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, had a monumental impact on 20th-century pop culture and the 1960s countercultural movement. Most ...

A new tribute album offers musical interpretations of Ginsberg's poems. The poet and countercultural activist spoke to Terry Gross in 1994 about his poem "Howl," which was inspired by his mother.