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Charles Foster papers, approximately 1957-1975.
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Title:
Charles Foster papers, approximately 1957-1975Creator/Contributor:
Foster, Charles, 1922-1967, creator, creator.Abstract:
Consists of manuscripts and typescripts of poems, notebooks containing poems and original artwork, including collages; and
typescripts for Dial Artemis and other publications.
Date:
1957 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caFoster, Charles -- 1922-1967 -- Archives
Authors, American -- 20th century
Poets, American -- California -- San Francisco -- 20th century
Beats (Persons)
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Charles Foster papers, BANC MSS 2005/103 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Original artwork transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 2001.207).
Born in Boston in 1922, Charles Foster was a contemporary of Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. In
1957, Foster left a career in advertising in order to write. He was a regular in the Beat scene in Venice Beach, but had published
very little when he died at forty-five in 1967.
In English.
Preliminary list available in the library.
Type:
Manuscripts for publication.Physical Description:
print
3.75 (3 2
Language:
English
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CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.