JOHN CLELLON HOLMES — Representative Men: The Biographical Essays Selected Essays By John Clellon Holmes Volume 2

USA, University of Arkansas Press. 1988. Paperback with dust jacket, 22cm. Book, 277 clean white well bound pp, John Clellon Holmes lived in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. He remained close friends with Kerouac until Jack's death in 1969. John Clellon Holmes died in Middleton, Connecticut on March 2, 1988. He is the author of 'Go', 'The Horn" and "Representative Men'. Holmes was the person who first asked Kerouac to describe their generation and that's when Jack flashed on Herbert Huncke's use of the term 'beat' and responded immediately that theirs was a "Beat Generation". Very Good/None issued.