Memoirs of a Beatnik Author:Diane di Prima This book originally published in 1969, a evocative chronicle of the 1950s filled with lively and well drawn characters. Di Prima begins her story when she is 17 and has just left college to live on her own in New York. Willing to do anything short of street walking, she works as a nude model, spends her free time in cafes and bars in the bohemi... more »an pads where she and her friends live and tells of an assortmant of lovers, includng jack kerouac himself.« less