John Tytell Explained
John Tytell (born 1939) is an American writer and academic. He is professor emeritus of modern American literature at Queens College, City University of New York.[1] [2] [3]
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.[3]
Early life
Tytell was born in Antwerp, Belgium.[3]
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.
Notes and References
- http://english.qc.cuny.edu/people/emeritus/ "Emeritus"
- http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/podcasts/2015/01/13/john-tytell-on-beat-writing/ "John Tytell on the Beat Writers and Literary Mayhem"
- http://americanbookreview.org/editor.asp?id=16 "John Tytell"
- Parisi, Joseph (16 August 1987). "Demystifying Ezra Pound". Chicago Tribune.
- https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/john-tytell/ "John Tytell"
