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Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919–2021), poet who owned City Lights bookstore
Lawrence Ferlinghetti was a poet who co-founded and owned the famed City Lights bookstore in San Francisco and championed Beat poets including Allen Ginsberg.Ferlinghetti, a native of New York, settled in San Francisco in 1951, just as the city was beginning to become a haven for iconoclasts. Soon after, in 1953, he co-founded City Lights along with Peter D.
