The Beat Generation
An introduction to members of the Beat Generation for Tytell came through her husband, John, whose book Naked Angels was the first major study of the literary phenomenon and its authors. Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Herbert Huncke, and John Clellon Holmes, have all been subjects of Tytell, documenting the later years of the writers and their continuing relevance to American culture.
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