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Mar 12, 1926 Massachusetts, United States Died on 30 Mar 1988 (aged 62)
American Beat Generation writer, novelist
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About John Clellon Holmes
- John Clellon Holmes (March 12, 1926, Holyoke, Massachusetts – March 30, 1988, Middletown, Connecticut) was an American author, poet and professor, best known for his 1952 novel Go.
- Considered the first "Beat" novel, Go depicted events in his life with his friends Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg.
- He was often referred to as the "quiet Beat" and was one of Kerouac's closest friends.
- Holmes also wrote what is considered the definitive jazz novel of the Beat Generation, The Horn.
