Background
Irwin Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey to Louis and Naomi (Levy) Ginsberg. American poet, author,
lecturer, and teacher who was one of the core members of the Beat Generation of American author's in the 1950's and early
1960's along with Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. He died of complications of liver cancer on April
6, 1997.
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