![]() ![]() ![]() You could come here and just start anything you wanted, because, in New York City, it would have been impossible to start a bookstore unless you had lots of money." "It was still the last frontier when I arrived in 1951," he recalled on his 96th birthday. Navy during World War II and earning a master's degree in English literature at Columbia University, Ferlinghetti-a native of Yonkers, New York and a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill-moved to San Francisco and opened his bookstore and publishing house. That's where he founded City Lights on Columbus Avenue in 1953 with professor Peter D. The San Francisco Chronicle reports Ferlinghetti died of a degenerative lung condition in the apartment where he lived for 40 years in the city's North Beach neighborhood. "Poetry should be dissident and subversive and an agent for change." -Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Ferlinghetti-acclaimed poet, playwright, novelist, artist, independent publisher, activist, first Poet Laureate of San Francisco, and co-founder of the iconic City Lights Bookstore-died Monday at the age of 101. ![]()
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