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Date of Birth
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24-March-1919
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Place of Birth
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Yonkers
(Westchester County, United States of America, New York)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti, Lawrence Ferling, Lawence Ferling
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Profession
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Writer, Poet, Essayist, Painter
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti is an American poet, painter, liberal activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. Author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, he is best known for A Coney Island of the Mind, a collection of poems that has been translated into nine languages, with sales of over one million copies.
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