| Display title | The Beat Generation |
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This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | The Beat Generation was a group of writers best known for their work in The Fifties. At the core of the beats was a group of three writers: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, best known for On the Road, Howl and Naked Lunch, respectively. The name "The Beat Generation" was originally coined by Kerouac, who enjoyed the many possible meanings of "beat," both positive and negative, including beat-down, upbeat, beatific and "on-the-beat," in the musical sense. The history of the relationships between the three friends and their periphery is long and complex and is better read elsewhere than summarized here. (To give you an idea, it involves large amounts of alcohol, speed, opiates and psychedelic drugs, unrequited same-sex love, the cover-up of a manslaughter, an insanity plea and subsequent mental hospital stay, and a wife killed in a deliberate-but-drunken attempt at William Telling. And these are all separate events.) |