

The Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation
Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S.














17 August 1939, Kansas City, Missouri, USA

October 7, 1934 in Newark, New Jersey, USA

1 August 1942, San Francisco, California, USA


31 January 1923, Long Branch, New Jersey, USA

September 5, 1912 in Los Angeles, California, USA

28 February 1957, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

13 February 1961, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

14 August 1945, Waco, Texas, USA

1 May 1924, Alvarado, Texas, USA

31 January 1937, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

8 August 1958, Dalton, Georgia, USA