Beats

PEOPLE

Obscenity. Addiction. Murder. William S. Burroughs was perhaps the most controversial member of the entire Beat Generation.

PEOPLE

Before the hippies came around, there were the Beats—and at the forefront was Allen Ginsberg, the generation-defining poet of the iconic poem "Howl."



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