John Clellon Holmes

American beat generation writer, novelist (1926–1988).

Born March 12th, 1926 in Massachusetts.

Died March 30th, 1988 at 62 years old in Middletown (cancer).

Occupations
novelist, poet, university teacher, writer

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. Leo Tolstoy