Michael McClure
American writer (1932-2020) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 87
Michael McClure was an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist. After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poets who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955, which was barely fictionalized in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums.
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He soon became a key member of the Beat Generation and was immortalized as Pat McLear in Kerouac's Big Sur.
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United States
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Writers
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Deceased
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Lived 1932 to 2020 · aged 87
