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Lucien Carr (March 1, 1925 – January 28, 2005) was a key member of the original New York City circle of the Beat Generation in the 1940s and also a convicted manslaughterer. He later worked for many years as an editor for United Press International.
Jan 30, 2005 · Lucien Carr, one of the founders -- and one of the last survivors -- of the Beat Generation of poets and writers, although one who never wrote poetry or novels, died on Friday. He was 79.
Carr was the last of the four to die, and with all of them gone, it seems like the world is finally ready to ask two questions: Had Lucien Carr not killed a man, would he have been the greatest of what we now call the Beat Generation?
Jun 27, 2019 · The student was the St. Louis native Lucien Carr, who possessed a mixture of delinquency, good looks, and intellectual charm. His victim was the thirty-one-year-old David Kammerer, a tall lanky man with dark-red hair and a high-pitched voice who was a friend of William Burroughs.
Nov 8, 1994 · Lucien Carr died of bone cancer in Washington D.C. on January 28, 2005, having outlived virtually all the members of the New York circle of Beat writers he had befriended decades earlier. Lucien’s son Caleb Carr is the author of the acclaimed murder mystery ‘The Alienist.’
Oct 5, 2020 · The end of 1943 saw the dawn of a new season. Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg were introduced to each other by an enigmatic Columbia University undergraduate named Lucien Carr, and together, they lay the foundation of Beat ethic in life as art, as well as literary influence and form.
Jan 30, 2005 · Lucien Carr, who brought together, befriended and served as muse for novelists Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs and poet Allen Ginsberg, the three writers who formed the core of literature’s...
