Lawrence Lipton

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Lawrence Lipton (born October 10, 1898 in Lodz , Poland , † July 9, 1975 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American journalist and writer.

Life

Lawrence Lipton, son of Rose and Abraham Lipton, came to Chicago , Illinois with his family in 1903 . After several attempts to gain a foothold, he began writing regularly for the Sunday edition of the New York magazine Forverts . In the 1920s, Lipton was part of the Chicago circle around authors Ben Hecht , Carl Sandburg , Edgar Lee Masters , Sherwood Anderson, and Harriet Monroe .

Lipton was married several times; his first wife Dorothy Omansky died after a few years of marriage. With his second wife Betty Weinberg he had his only son James Lipton . In the late 1930s, Betty was divorced and Lipton married Georgiana Randolph Craig, a mystery novelist who published under the pen name Craig Rice . After this marriage was divorced, Lipton married Nettie Esther Brooks in 1948.

In addition to contributions to The Atlantic Monthly , Chicago Review and The Quarterly Review of Literature , Lipton wrote the novels Brother, the laugh is bitter (1942) and In secret battle (1944) as well as a volume of poetry Rainbow at midnight (1955).

In 1959 the novel The Holy Barbarians appeared , which the American news magazine Time described as a travel guide to the Beat Generation . The following year he had a supporting role in the horror film The 13 Victims of Dr. Desmond as "King of the Beatniks".

Since 1956 Lipton experimented with the connection between poetry and jazz, working first with Shelly Manne , then with musicians such as Jimmy Giuffre , Buddy Collette and Bill Holman . In 1958 he produced the jazz & lyric album Jazz Canto , on which one of his poems to music by Chico Hamilton's quintet is performed. He also worked with cellist Fred Katz on his album Folk Songs for Out Folks (1958).

Works (selection)

  • Brother, the laugh is bitter (1942)
  • In secret battle (1944)
  • Rainbow at midnight (1955)
  • The holy barbarians (1959; German as "The holy barbarians")
  • Erotic revolution, an affirmative view of the new morality (1965)
  • Bruno in Venice West, and other poems (1976)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d biography ( Memento of May 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) at USC Libraries
  2. ^ "Boheme with a beard" (report on the novel) in Der Spiegel 4/1961
  3. ↑ Jazz Canto  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.righteous23.com  
  4. ^ Elliott Simon: Fred Katz-Portrait in All About Jazz
personal data
SURNAME Lipton, Lawrence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Lodz , Poland
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1975
Place of death Los Angeles , California