# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lawrence-ferlinghetti
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:59:32.658Z

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name: "Lawrence Ferlinghetti"
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description: "Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti was an American poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. An author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, Ferlinghetti was best known for his second collection of poems, A Coney Island of the Mind (1958), which has been translated into nine languages and sold over a million copies. When Ferlinghetti turned 100 in March 2019, the city of San Francisco turned his birthday, March 24, into \"Lawrence Ferlinghetti Day\"."
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birthDate: "1919-03-24"
deathDate: "2021-02-22"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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