The Resume

(January 9, 1915-August 8, 1996)
Born in Greenfield, Massachusetts
Petty thief/hustler/addict/Times Square fixture/Beat Generation figure
Wrote 'Huncke's Journal' (1965), 'The Evening Sun Turned Crimson' (1970), and 'Guilty of Everything' (1990)

Why he might be annoying:

He was a drug addict by age 12 and a prostitute at 16.
He spent several years as a hobo riding the rails.
He gave William S. Burroughs his first heroin fix.
He and jazz musician Dexter Gordon were busted for breaking into parked cars.
He got Allen Ginsberg in legal trouble by stashing stolen goods in his apartment.
He said about his relationship with the more intellectual Beat authors, 'I felt as though, at best, they were patronizing me.'

Why he might not be annoying:

He served in the Merchant Marine during World War II.
One of his conversations with Jack Kerouac inspired the phrase 'Beat Generation.'
He was inspiration for several of Ginsberg's poems, and characters in Burrough's 'Junkie,' Kerouac's 'On the Road' and 'The Town and the City,' and John Clellon Holmes' 'Go.'
Kerouac praised him as 'a perfect writer' and Burroughs called him 'an actual genius.'

Credit: C. Fishel

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