Original beatnik dies
NZPA-AP San Francisco The poet, Bob Kaufman, known as the black American Rimbaud and the original be-bop man, has died of emphysema. He was 60. Kaufman was born in New Orleans to a black mother and white father. He wrote several books and was closely associated during the 1950 s and 1960 s with writers, including Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. The newspaper columnist, Herb Caen, was thinking of Kaufman when he coined the word “beatnik” in the late 19505, according to the late Thomas Albright, onetime art critic in the “San Francisco Chronicle.”
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Press, 16 January 1986, Page 19
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