Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Comprehensive information about Lawrence Ferlinghetti including biographical information, facts, literary works, and more. Lawrence Ferlinghetti is an American poet, painter, liberal activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. Author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, he is best known for A Coney Island of the Mind (New York: New Directions, 1958), a collection of poems that has been translated into nine languages, with sales of over 1 million copies. This educational Lawrence Ferlinghetti resource has information about the author's life, works, quotations, articles and essays, and more.