![]() ![]() Navy throughout World War II, as the captain of a submarine chaser in the Normandy invasion. He began his journalism career by writing sports for The Daily Tar Heel, and published his first short stories in Carolina Magazine, for which Thomas Wolfe had written. He attended the Mount Hermon School for Boys (later Northfield Mount Hermon) graduating in 1937, then the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he earned a B.A. He was raised by an aunt, and later by foster parents. Shortly before his birth, his father, Carlo, a native of Brescia, died of a heart attack and his mother, Clemence Albertine (née Mendes-Monsanto), of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish descent, was committed to a mental hospital shortly after. Early life įerlinghetti was born on March 24, 1919, in Yonkers, New York. When Ferlinghetti turned 100 in March 2019, the city of San Francisco turned his birthday, March 24, into "Lawrence Ferlinghetti Day". An author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, Ferlinghetti was best known for his second collection of poems, A Coney Island of the Mind (1958), which has been translated into nine languages and sold over a million copies. Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti (Ma– February 22, 2021) was an American poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. ![]()
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