John Tytell (born 1939) is an American writer and academic. He is professor emeritus of modern American literature at

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''Los Angeles Review of Books''. He has written for the ''American Scholar'', ''Partisan Review'', ''New York Times'', and ''Vanity Fair''.

Early life

Tytell was born in Antwerp, Belgium.

Selected works

* (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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