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Also Known As	Beat generation
Date	c. 1950 - c. 1960
Significant Works	Howl • Naked Lunch • On the Road • Reality Sandwiches
Related Artists	Lawrence Ferlinghetti • Jack Kerouac • William S. Burroughs • Gary Snyder • Allen Ginsberg • Diane di Prima • Gregory Corso • Gilbert Sorrentino • Bob Kaufman • Philip Whalen • Kenneth Rexroth

The term "Beat generation" is attributed to Jack Kerouac and describes the weariness of the postwar generation.
The Beat poets won national recognition after winning against a case that had tried to declare Allen Ginsberg's "Howl and Other Poems" obscene in 1956.
Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" is often considered the novel of the Beat generation.