John Tytell
American writer and academic (born 1939)
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John Tytell (born 1939) is an American writer and academic.[1] He is professor emeritus of modern American literature at Queens College, City University of New York.[2][3][1]
John Tytell | |
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| Born | 1939 (age 86–87) Antwerp, Belgium |
| Education | PhD |
| Alma mater | City College of New York New York University |
| Occupations | Academic, writer |
| Employer | Queens College, City University of New York |
| Spouse | Mellon Tytell |
Tytell's works on literary figures such as Jack Kerouac, Ezra Pound,[4] Allen Ginsberg, Henry Miller, and William S. Burroughs have made him a leading scholar of the Beat Generation.[5] He has written for the American Scholar, Partisan Review, New York Times, and Vanity Fair.[1]
Early life
Tytell was born in Antwerp, Belgium.[1]
Selected works
- (2017). Beat Transnationalism. Beatdom Books.
- (2014). Writing Beat and Other Occasions of Literary Mayhem. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.
- (2014). The Beat Interviews. Temple, PA: Beatdom Books.
- (1999). Paradise Outlaws: Remembering the Beats. New York: William Morrow. Photographs by Mellon Tytell.
- (1995). The Living Theatre: Art, Exile and Outrage. New York: Grove Press.
- (1991). Passionate Lives: D.H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath—In Love. New York: Carol Publishing Group.
- (1987). Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano. New York: Doubleday.
- (1976). Naked Angels: Lives and Literature of the Beat Generation. New York: McGraw Hill.[6]