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Peter Orlovsky

American poet, Allen Ginsberg's longtime partner, Kerouac travel companion and member of Burroughs's Beat Hotel community in Paris.

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Nationality
American
Roles
Poet

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Illustrated portrait of William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs

  • Author
  • Painter

Met · 1958

Orlovsky was part of Burroughs's Beat Hotel community in Paris.

— Naked Lunch: The First Fifty Years

Illustrated portrait of Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac

  • Author
  • Poet

Met · 1956

Orlovsky traveled with Kerouac, Ginsberg and Corso in Mexico in 1956 and later appeared in Pull My Daisy.

— Allen Ginsberg, Street cornerman's tintype, Alameda Park, Mexico City (1956); Pull My Daisy and The Sin of Jesus

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Met · 1958

William S. Burroughs

Orlovsky was part of Burroughs's Beat Hotel community in Paris.

— Naked Lunch: The First Fifty Years

Met · 1956

Jack Kerouac

Orlovsky traveled with Kerouac, Ginsberg and Corso in Mexico in 1956 and later appeared in Pull My Daisy.

— Allen Ginsberg, Street cornerman's tintype, Alameda Park, Mexico City (1956); Pull My Daisy and The Sin of Jesus

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  1. 1Naked Lunch: The First Fifty Years

    Exhibition catalogue
    Columbia University Libraries
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    Catalogue scholarship used to verify attribution, provenance, chronology, and interpretive context for Peter Orlovsky.

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  2. 2Street cornerman's tintype, Alameda Park, Mexico City

    Official record
    National Gallery of Art, 1956
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    Official record used to verify names, dates, institutional details, or other factual information on this page.

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  1. 3Pull My Daisy and The Sin of Jesus

    Official record
    The Museum of Modern Art
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    Official record used to verify names, dates, institutional details, or other factual information on this page.

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  2. 4Beat Generation poet Peter Orlovsky's archive

    Archive
    Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin, 2013
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    Archival evidence used to document the historical record connected to Peter Orlovsky.

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