Lawrence Lipton
Lawrence Lipton ( born October 10, 1898 in Lodz, Poland, † July 9, 1975 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American journalist and writer.
Life
1903 Lawrence Lipton, son of Rose and Abraham Lipton came with his family to Chicago, Illinois. After various attempts to gain a foothold professionally, he began to write regularly for the Sunday edition of the New Yorker magazine Forverts. In the 1920s, Lipton was part of the Chicago circle about the authors Ben Hecht, Carl Sandburg, Edgar Lee Masters, Sherwood Anderson and Harriet Monroe.
Lipton was married several times; his first wife Dorothy Omansky died after a few years of marriage. With his second wife, Betty Weinberg he got his only son James Lipton. In the late 1930s, the marriage ended in divorce with Betty and Lipton married Georgiana Randolph Craig, a writer of mystery novels published under the pseudonym of Craig Rice. After this marriage ended in divorce, married Lipton 1948 Nettie Esther Brooks.
In addition to contributions to The Atlantic Monthly, Chicago Review and The Quarterly Review of Literature Lipton wrote the novels Brother, the laugh is bitter ( 1942) and In secret battle (1944 ) and a book of poetry Rainbow at Midnight ( 1955).
In 1959 the novel The Holy Barbarians, which was designated by the American news magazine Time as a Guide to the Beat Generation.
Since 1956 Lipton experimented with the connection between poetry and jazz, where he worked with Shelly Manne, Jimmy Giuffre then with musicians such as, Buddy Collette and Bill Holman. In 1958 he produced the Jazz & Poetry album Jazz Canto, on the even of his poems to music of the Quintet Chico Hamilton will be carried forward. With cellist Fred Katz, he worked for his album Folk Songs for Out Folks (1958).
Works (selection)
- Brother, the laugh is bitter ( 1942)
- In secret battle (1944 )
- The holy barbarians (1959; German as " The Holy Barbarians" )
- Erotic revolution, to affirmative view of the new morality (1965 )
- Bruno in Venice West, and other poems (1976 )