Michael McClure
Poet, Author
1932 –
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Who is Michael McClure?
Michael McClure is an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist. After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poets who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955 rendered in barely fictionalized terms in Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums. He soon became a key member of the Beat Generation and is immortalized as "Pat McLear" in Kerouac's Big Sur.
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- Born
- Oct 20, 1932
Marysville - Also known as
- Michael Mc Clure
- Spouses
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Wichita State University
(1951 - 1953) - University of Arizona
(1953 - 1954) - Bachelor of Arts, San Francisco State University
( - 1955)
- Wichita State University
- Lived in
- San Francisco Bay Area
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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