Lucien Carr (March 1, 1925 – January 28, 2005) was a key figure in the Beat generation, and later an editor for UPI. March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The term Beat Generation refers primarily to a group of American writers of the 1950s whose work strongly influenced the cultural transformations of the 60s. ... Front of UPI Headquarters, Washington, D.C. United Press International (UPI) is a global news agency headquartered in the United States filing news in English, Spanish and Arabic. ...

Carr was a roommate of Allen Ginsberg at Columbia University in the 1940s and met Jack Kerouac through Jack's then-girlfriend Edie Parker. He introduced both men to William S. Burroughs, whom he had known in St. Louis, Missouri. Carr stabbed David Kammerer to death in an altercation in 1944, and made a plea of guilty to manslaughter, explaining how he disposed of the body in the Hudson River. Carr had met Kammerer in Saint Louis, and Carr stated in court that Kammerer had stalked him in a homosexual obsession. Carr was sentenced to twenty years in prison for murder, but served only two years in the Elmira Correctional Facility, in Upstate New York. Allen Ginsberg in later life Irwin Allen Ginsberg (IPA: ) (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American Beat poet born in Newark, New Jersey. ... Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City and a member of the Ivy League. ... // Events and trends World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atomic bomb. ... Jack Kerouac Jack Kerouac (March 12, 1922, Lowell, Massachusetts – October 21, 1969, St. ... Edie Parker was an author from the Beatnik generation and the first wife of Jack Kerouac. ... William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American novelist, essayist, social critic and spoken word performer. ... Nickname: Gateway City, Gateway to the West, or Mound City Official website: http://stlouis. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... View of the Hudson in the 1880s showing Jersey City The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk in Mahican, is a river running mainly through New York State but partly forming the boundary between the states of New York and New Jersey. ... Elmira Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison located in New York in the USA. The prison is located in Chemung County, New York near the City of Elmira. ... Upstate New York is the region of New York State outside of the core of the New York metropolitan area. ...

Jack Kerouac was arrested as an accessory, and bail was set for $2,500. Kerouac persuaded Edie Parker that he would marry her, if she helped him make bail. Edie bailed Jack out of jail, and they were married. Their marriage was annulled only one year later.

In Jack Kerouac's The Town and the City, Carr is represented by the character "Kenneth Wood", and a more literal depiction of events appears in Vanity of Duluoz. The Town and the City is a novel by Jack Kerouac, published by Harcourt Brace in 1950 (ISBN 0-15-690790-9). ... Categories: Literature stubs | Novels of Jack Kerouac ...

After his prison term, Carr went to work as a journalist for United Press, where he was initially hired as a copy boy in 1946. He became the night news editor in 1956 and went on to head the general news desk until his retirement in 1993. United Press International (UPI) is a global news agency headquartered in the United States filing news in English, Spanish and Arabic. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...

After a long battle with bone cancer, Lucien Carr died at George Washington University Hospital after collapsing at his Washington, D.C. home. A sarcoma is a cancer of the bone, cartilage, fat, muscle, blood vessels, or other connective or supportive tissue. ... The George Washington University (GWU) is a private university in Washington, D.C., founded in 1821 as The Columbian College. ... Nickname: the District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Official website: http://www. ...

The novelist Caleb Carr is Lucien Carr's son. Caleb Carr (born August 2, 1955) is an American novelist and noted military historian. ...

External links

• Literary Kicks - Lucien Carr