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Sterling Lord, uniquely enduring literary agent, dies at 102
Read full article: Sterling Lord, uniquely enduring literary agent, dies at 102The uniquely enduring literary agent who worked for years to find a publisher for Jack Kerouacโs โOn the Roadโ and over the following decades arranged deals for everyone from true crime writer Joe McGinniss to the creators of the Berenstain Bears has died.
Beat poet, publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti dies at 101
Read full article: Beat poet, publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti dies at 101Ferlinghetti, a poet, publisher and bookseller has died in San Francisco at age 101. His son says Ferlinghetti died at home on Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Frankie Ziths, File)SAN FRANCISCO โ Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, publisher, bookseller and activist who helped launch the Beat movement in the 1950s and embodied its curious and rebellious spirit well into the 21st century, has died at age 101. Ferlinghetti, a San Francisco institution, died Monday at his home, his son Lorenzo Ferlinghetti said. He was named San Franciscoโs first poet laureate, in 1998, and City Lights was granted landmark status three years later.