John Clellon Holmes
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John Clellon Holmes (March 12, 1926, Holyoke, Massachusetts) was an American writer, poet, and scholar best known for his 1952 book Go.
Go depicted events in his personal life with his friends Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and Allen Ginsberg in his first "Beat" book.
He was often described as the "quiet Beat" on Kerouac's closest friends.
Holmes also wrote The Horn, what is regarded as the Beat Generation's best jazz book.
Life and career
Holmes was more a reporter and chronicler of beat characters such as Ginsberg, Cassady, and Kerouac than any one of them. Ginsberg requested Ginsberg for "any and all details about your poetry and visions" (shortly before Ginsberg's admission to the hospital), saying that "I am interested in knowing also everything you may want to hear about Neal, Huncke, Lucien, and others), to which Ginsberg responded with an 11-page letter describing the essence of his "divine vision."
Jack Kerouac told Holmes, "You know, this is really a beat generation." Holmes wrote an article entitled "This Is the Beat Generation" in The New York Times Magazine on November 16, 1952 (pg.10), later becoming part of common parlance. Holmes traces the term to Kerouac, who had stolen the idea from Herbert Huncke in the book. Holmes came to the conclusion that the Beat Generation's values and aspirations were representative of something greater, which was the inspiration for Go.
Holmes later in life, lectured at Yale, and gave lectures at Brown University. In 1988, he died of cancer.