| LC control no. | n 80023557 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3511.E557 |
| Personal name heading | Ferlinghetti, Lawrence |
| Variant(s) | Ferlinghetti, 1919-2021 Feilingedi, 1919-2021 Ferling, Lawrence Monsanto, 1919-2021 |
| See also | Founded corporate body of person: City Lights Books |
| Other standard no. | Q314269 000000011978478X 110070499 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | San Francisco (Calif.) |
| Birth date | 1919-03-24 |
| Death date | 2021-02-22 |
| Place of birth | Yonkers (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | California |
| Field of activity | Poetry Political participation Authorship Painting Booksellers and bookselling English literature |
| Affiliation | City Lights Books Ordre des arts et des lettres (France) |
| Profession or occupation | Poets Political activists Painters Booksellers and bookselling |
| Found in | Pictures of the gone world, 1955. Poema para promover el enjuiciamiento del presidente Eisenhower, between 1958 and 1962: t.p. (el poeta norteamericano Ferlinghetti) Tou shi Meiguo, Jinsiboge lun tan, 2002: t.p. (Feilingedi) Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 3-24-1919.) Shards, 2015: (Lawrence Ferlinghetti) data view (b. 1919 in Yonkers, NY; poet, publisher, and activist; received the Robert Frost Memorial Medal and first Literarian Award of the National Book Foundation; co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers) Wikipedia, September 21, 2017 (Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti; born Lawrence Monsanto Ferling, March 24, 1919, Yonkers, New York; literary movement: Beat poetry; American poet, painter, liberal activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers (San Francisco); used "Ferling" for his earliest published work but reverted to the original Italian family name "Ferlinghetti" in 1955, when publishing his first book of poems, Pictures of the gone world; earned a master's degree in English literature in 1947 with a thesis on John Ruskin and the British painter J. M. W. Turner. From Columbia, he went to Paris to continue his studies and lived in the city between 1947 and 1951, earning a Doctorat de l'Université de Paris, with a "mention très honorable." His two theses were on the city as a symbol in modern poetry and on the nature of Gothic) Little boy, 2019: back flap (Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born in Yonkers, New York in 1919. Founder of the famed City Lights Booksellers and Publishers, he is an activist, painter, and author of numerous works of poetry, prose, and drama. He is also a Commander of the French Order of Arts and Letters. He lives in San Francisco, right above his bookstore) Los Angeles times, February 23, 2021, via WWW, viewed February 23, 2021 (Lawrence Ferlinghetti; born Lawrence Monsanto Ferling, March 24, 1919, Yonkers, N.Y.; died Monday evening [February 22, 2021] at his Bay Area home, aged 101; San Francisco poet, publisher and bookseller) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 90615607 |
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