John Tytell (born 1939) is an American writer and academic.[1] He is professor emeritus of modern American literature at Queens College, City University of New York.[2][3][1]

John Tytell
Born1939
Antwerp, Belgium
NationalityAmerican
EducationPhD
Alma materCity College of New York
New York University
Occupation(s)Academic, writer
EmployerQueens College, City University of New York
SpouseMellon Tytell

Tytell's works on literary figures such as Jack Kerouac, Ezra Pound,[4] Allen Ginsberg, Henry Miller, and William S. Burroughs have made him a leading scholar of the Beat Generation.[5] He has written for the American Scholar, Partisan Review, New York Times, and Vanity Fair.[1]

Early life

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Tytell was born in Antwerp, Belgium.[1]

Selected works

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  • (2017). Beat Transnationalism. Beatdom Books.
  • (2014). Writing Beat and Other Occasions of Literary Mayhem. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.
  • (2014). The Beat Interviews. Temple, PA: Beatdom Books.
  • (1999). Paradise Outlaws: Remembering the Beats. New York: William Morrow. Photographs by Mellon Tytell.
  • (1995). The Living Theatre: Art, Exile and Outrage. New York: Grove Press.
  • (1991). Passionate Lives: D.H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath—In Love. New York: Carol Publishing Group.
  • (1987). Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano. New York: Doubleday.
  • (1976). Naked Angels: Lives and Literature of the Beat Generation. New York: McGraw Hill.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "John Tytell". American Book Review, accessed 16 September 2020.
  2. ^ "Emeritus". The Department of English, CUNY.
  3. ^ "John Tytell on the Beat Writers and Literary Mayhem". CUNY, 13 January 2015.
  4. ^ Parisi, Joseph (16 August 1987). "Demystifying Ezra Pound". Chicago Tribune.
  5. ^ "John Tytell". Los Angeles Review of Books.