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Date of Birth
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20-October-1932
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Place of Birth
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Marysville
(Marshall County, Kansas, United States of America)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Michael Mc Clure
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Profession
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Writer, Playwright, Professor, Critic, Songwriter, Poet, Actor
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Michael McClure is an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist. After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poets who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955 rendered in barely fictionalized terms in Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums. He soon became a key member of the Beat Generation and is immortalized as "Pat McLear" in Kerouac's Big Sur.
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