 | Girls Who Wore Black: Women Writing the Beat Generation
Buy new: $21.55 / Used from: $15.81 If you're doing research on women in the beat generation, you must get three books. This is the first one.
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 | Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $6.00 This is the second.
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 | A Different Beat: Writing by Women of the Beat Generation (High Risk Books)
Buy used from: $3.66 And here is the third.
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 | Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir by Joyce Johnson
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.75 Joyce Johnson's side of the story
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 | Memoirs of a Beatnik by Diane DiPrima
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.92 |
 | How I Became Hettie Jones by Hettie Jones
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $2.77 |
 | Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg by Carolyn Cassady
Buy used from: $2.57 |
 | Baby Driver: A Story About Myself by Jan Kerouac
Buy used from: $3.54 Kerouac's daughter's most famous book
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 | Beat Down to Your Soul: What Was the Beat Generation? by Ann Charters
Buy used from: $6.80 Nobody documents the beat generation better than Ann Charters.
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 | The Portable Beat Reader (Viking Portable Library)
Buy used from: $0.30 More men than women in here, but Charters has included excerpts of several female Beat texts.
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 | The New American Poetry, 1945-1960
Buy new: $21.46 / Used from: $7.24 Several female poets of the Beat Generation are included in this significant anthology. If you're studying this period of American literature, I bet you already own this. If not, get it!
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 | Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958 by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: $11.25 / Used from: $1.84 The correspondence between Joyce Johnson and Kerouac
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 | Nobody's Wife: The Smart Aleck and the King of Beats by Joan Haverty Kerouac
Buy used from: $3.26 Before this, she wrote an article entitled "My Ex-Husband, Jack Kerouac, Is an Ingrate." She is also Jan's mother.
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 | Dinners and Nightmares by Diane Di Prima
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $3.99 |
 | Revolutionary letters, etc (The Pocket poets series) by Diane Di Prima
Buy used from: $14.99 |
 | Fast Speaking Woman: Chants and Essays (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) by Anne Waldman
Buy new: $10.95 / Used from: $2.53 She helped found the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa.
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 | Collected Earlier Poems, 1940-1960 by Denise Levertov
Buy new: $10.95 / Used from: $1.88 |
 | Poems, 1960-1967 by Denise Levertov
Buy new: $18.95 / Used from: $1.98 |
 | The Love Book by Lenore Kandel
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 | Tracking the Serpent: Journeys into Four Continents by Janine Pommy Vega
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Strange Big Moon: The Japan and India Journals, 1960-1964 by Joanne Kyger
Buy used from: $1.48 |
| Elise Cowen: A brief memoir of the fifties by Leo Skir
This poet committed suicide by jumping through a closed, locked window. Much of her poetry has been lost, but some of it is included in the female beat anthologies above.
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| The generation of love by Mary Norbert Korte
Buy used from: $10.50 |
| Word Alchemy by Lenore Kandel
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| The animal kingdom: Poems, 1964-1974 by Mary Fabilli
Buy used from: $39.95 |
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