Allen Ginsberg papers, 1937-1994

Abstract/Contents

Abstract

Contains correspondence, manuscripts by Ginsberg and other Beat Generation authors, business records, notebooks and journals, clipping files, books, periodicals, audiotapes, videotapes, photographs, posters, and a CD-rom. Accessions received in 1998, 1999, 2002 and 2004 totaling some 154 linear feet have not yet been processed.

Accession 2011-038, .25 linear foot, includes letters from Alan Ansen, Charles Bukowski, Robert Creeley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Louis Ginsberg, John Holmes, Norman Mailer, Michael McClure, Kate Orlovsky, kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, Anne Waldman, Philip Whalen, and others. Also included is "A commonplace book," a bound manuscript notebook by Ginsberg, 1946.

Description

Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	circa 1,330 linear feet
Place	California
Publication date	1937 - 1994
Issuance	monographic
Language	English
Note	The papers are divided into 19 series: Series 1. Correspondence, Series 2. Notebooks and journals, Series 3. Manuscripts, Series 4. Business records, Series 5. Financial Records, Series 6. Committee on Poetry records, Series 7. Teaching materials, Series 8. Political files, Series 9. Religious materials, Series 10. Photographs, Series 11. Audiovisual recordings, Series 12. Computer files, Series 13. Periodicals, Series 14. Clippings, Series 15. Memorabilia, Series 16. Posters, Series 17. Printed Ephemera, Series 18. Artwork, Series 19. Musical scores.

Creators/Contributors

Associated with	Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997

Subjects

Subject	Ansen, Alan
Subject	Antler, 1946-
Subject	Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973
Subject	Avedon, Richard
Subject	Ball, Gordon
Subject	Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014
Subject	Beck, Julian, 1925-1985
Subject	Berkson, Bill
Subject	Berrigan, Ted
Subject	Blackburn, Paul
Subject	Blake, William, 1757-1827
Subject	Bly, Robert
Subject	Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999
Subject	Bremser, Ray
Subject	Bukowski, Charles
Subject	Bunting, Basil
Subject	Burroughs, William S, 1914-1997
Subject	Burroughs, William S, 1947-1981
Subject	Carroll, Paul, 1927-1996
Subject	Cassady, Carolyn
Subject	Cassady, Neal
Subject	Cope, David, 1948-
Subject	Corso, Gregory
Subject	Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005
Subject	Dellinger, David T, 1915-2004
Subject	Di Prima, Diane
Subject	Dorn, Edward
Subject	Dylan, Bob, 1941-
Subject	Eberhart, Richard, 1904-2005
Subject	Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
Subject	Ford, Charles Henri
Subject	Genet, Jean, 1910-1986
Subject	Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
Subject	Ginsberg, Louis, 1895-1976
Subject	Giorno, John
Subject	Girodias, Maurice
Subject	Heliczer, Piero
Subject	Hoffman, Abbie
Subject	Hollo, Anselm
Subject	Holmes, John Clellon, 1926-1988
Subject	Horovitz, Michael, 1935-
Subject	Huncke, Herbert
Subject	Joans, Ted
Subject	Kaufman, Bob
Subject	Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969
Subject	Kesey, Ken
Subject	Koch, Kenneth, 1925-2002
Subject	Kupferberg, Tuli
Subject	Lamantia, Philip, 1927-2005
Subject	Lavigne, Robert
Subject	Leary, Timothy, 1920-1996
Subject	Lebel, Jean Jacques
Subject	Lennon, John, 1940-1980
Subject	Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997
Subject	Levy, D. A
Subject	Mailer, Norman
Subject	Malanga, Gerard
Subject	McClure, Michael
Subject	Micheline, Jack, 1929-1998
Subject	Montgomery, John, 1919-
Subject	Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972
Subject	Murao, Sōju, 1914-
Subject	Olson, Charles, 1910-1970
Subject	Ono, Yōko, 1943-
Subject	Orlovsky, Kate
Subject	Orlovsky, Peter, 1933-2010
Subject	Padgett, Ron, 1942-
Subject	Pickard, Tom, 1946-
Subject	Pivano, Fernanda
Subject	Plimpton, George
Subject	Plymell, Charles
Subject	Poniewaz, Jeff
Subject	Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
Subject	Ram Dass
Subject	Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982
Subject	Rosenthal, Bob, 1950-
Subject	Sanders, Ed
Subject	Snyder, Gary, 1930-
Subject	Solomon, Carl, 1928-
Subject	Sorrentino, Gilbert
Subject	Sosnora, Viktor
Subject	Southern, Terry
Subject	Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995
Subject	Suwa, Yū, 1929-
Subject	Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975
Subject	Trocchi, Alexander, 1925-1984
Subject	Trungpa, Chögyam, 1939-1987
Subject	Ungaretti, Giuseppe, 1888-1970
Subject	Vinkenoog, Simon, 1928-2009
Subject	Vitale, Tom
Subject	Voznesenskiĭ, Andreĭ, 1933-2010
Subject	Waldman, Anne, 1945-
Subject	Welch, Lew
Subject	Whalen, Philip
Subject	Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Subject	Wieners, John, 1934-2002
Subject	Williams, Jonathan, 1929-2008
Subject	Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963
Subject	Yevtushenko, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich, 1933-
Subject	Zukofsky, Louis, 1904-1978
Subject	American literature > 20th century > Sources
Subject	Beat generation
Genre	Cd-roms.
Genre	Compact discs.
Genre	Photoprints.
Genre	Video recordings.

Bibliographic information

Note	Containers are numbered consecutively within series.
Acquisition	Purchased and received, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004 and 2011.
Biographical/Historical	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.
Note	Unpublished guide and database available in Special Collections Reading Room and online.
Location	Location Finding aid available online
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/dj804nv0966
Location	Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, CA 94305

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