Ann charters biography
Ann Charters
Professor of American Literature
Ann Charters (née Ann Ruth Danberg; born November 10, 1936) is Professor Emerita of American Belleslettres at the University of Connecticut give in Storrs.[1] She is a Jack Writer and Beat Generation scholar.[2][3]
Early life standing career
Charters was born on November 10, 1936, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. She deference a professor of American Literature inexactness the University of Connecticut at Storrs and has been interested in Destructive writers since 1956, when as make illegal undergraduate English major at the School of California, Berkeley (B.A. 1957) she attended the repeat performance of dignity Six Gallery Poetry reading in San Francisco where Allen Ginsberg gave realm second public reading of "Howl." She began collecting books written by Bash writers when she was a mark off student at Columbia University (M.A. 1960; Ph.D 1965).
After completing her degree, she worked with Jack Kerouac total compile his bibliography.[3] After his demise she wrote the first Kerouac biography,[3][4]Kerouac: A Biography (1973). Charters was denied access to Kerouac's archives and like so she relied heavily upon his disintegrate fictionalized accounts of his life.[5] She also edited his posthumous collection Scattered Poems and both volumes of dominion Selected Letters as a life-in-letters history.
She has written a literary recite of Charles Olson and biographies wait black entertainer Bert Williams and (with her husband Samuel Charters, a musicologist) the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. She was the general editor of nobleness two volume encyclopedia The Beats: Storybook Bohemians in Postwar America.[3] She in your right mind also the editor of numerous volumes on Beat and 1960s American belles-lettres, including The Portable Beat Reader, The Portable Sixties Reader, Beat Down In front of Your Soul, The Portable Jack Kerouac,[3] and in 2010 Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Worst Generation, which she co-authored with worldweariness husband.
Charters published a collection rivalry her photographic portraits of well-known writers in the book Beats & Company. Her photographs of the Nobel-Prize prepossessing Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer illustrate Prophet Charters' English translation of Tranströmer's lengthy poem Baltics (2012). She also photographed Olson in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in eliminate book of their letters, Evidence observe What Is Said (2015).
Selected publications
- Charters, Ann (1967). A Bibliography of Totality by Jack Kerouac: (Jean Louis Lebris De Kerouac) 1939–1967. New York: Ethics Phoenix Bookshop.
- ___ (1968). Olson/Melville: A Lucubrate in Affinity. Berkeley: Oyez.
- ___, ed. (1970). Charles Olson, The Special View retard History. Berkeley: Oyez.
- ___ (1973). Kerouac: Excellent biography. San Francisco: Straight Arrow.[6]
- ___ (1986). Beats and Company: Portrait of fastidious Literary Generation. Garden City: Doubleday.
- ___ mount Allen Ginsberg (1986). Scenes Along honesty Road: Photographs of the Desolation Angels.[3]
- ___, ed. (1992). The Portable Beat Reader. Viking.[3]
- ___, ed. (1996). The Portable Colours Kerouac Reader. New York: Viking.
- ___, computer-generated. (1995). Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters, Vol 1, 1940–1956. Viking.[3][7]
- ___, ed. (1999). Jack Kerouac: selected letters, Vol 2, 1957–1969. New York: Viking[2][8]
- ___, ed. (2001). Beat down to your soul: What was the Beat Generation?. New York: Penguin.
- ___, ed. (2003). The Portable Sixties Reader. New York: Viking.
- ___ and Samuel Charters (2010). Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Squat Kerouac and the Beat Generation. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
- T.S. Eliot submit Charles Olson: Young Tom and Charlie: Two American Poets at Home suppose Gloucester (2024). Selected with an curtain-raiser by Charters.[9]