When Death Stalked the Beats

Jack Kerouac, Lucien Carr and Allen Ginsberg, 1959

A New York Times article by true crime author and journalist David J. Krajicek recounts the "violent death" that caught Beat Generation writers Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs in its gravitational pull 10 years prior to their debut on the literary scene.

 

In 1944, 19-year-old Lucien Carr, who had introduced Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs, stabbed David Kammerer, 33, to death in Riverside Park in response, Carr claimed, ...