Lawrence Ferlinghetti, bookstore owner, First Amendment defender and champion of the Beat poets, has died at 101. His small bookstore in San Francisco, City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, was a beacon of free speech and inspiration to artists and writers everywhere.
Read the in-depth appreciation at The New York Times here (subscription required):
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/obituaries/lawrence-ferlinghetti-dead.html?referringSource=articleShare