Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and writer, known for being part of the Beat Generation along with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. He opposed militarism, materialism, and sexual repression, and embodied various aspects of the counterculture, advocating drugs, sex, multiculturalism, and Eastern religions. His most famous work, the poem Howl, was the subject of a 1957 obscenity trial, during which Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that it was not obscene. Ginsberg was a Buddhist who studied Eastern religious disciplines and was active in political protests against the Vietnam War and the war on drugs. He received numerous awards for his poetry, including the National Book Award in 1974 and the Robert Frost Medal in 1986.
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