Allen Ginsberg was a member of the American Academy of Arts and
Letters as well as a winner of the National Book Award for Poetry.
He was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1926, and died in New York
City in 1997.
Eric Drooker is a painter and graphic novelist, born and raised on
Manhattan Island. He's the award-winning author of Flood! A Novel
in Pictures and Blood Song: A Silent Ballad. For many years Drooker
was a street artist, well known for his provocative posters
plastered on city lampposts and walls. His paintings now appear on
covers of The New Yorker and hang in numerous collections. He
collaborated with Allen Ginsberg on the book Illuminated Poems and
later designed the animation for the movie Howl. In 2006, the
Library of Congress acquired his original art for Flood! A Novel in
Pictures, including preliminary drawings, sketches, and cover
paintings.
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