Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born Lawrence Ferling on
March 24,
1919) is an American
poet and painter, and the co-founder of
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. Author of poetry, translations, fiction, theater, art criticism, and film narration, he is best known for A Coney Island of the Mind (New York:
New Directions, 1958), a collection of poems that has been translated into nine languages, with sales over 1,000,000 copies.
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