John Tytell (born 1939) is an American writer and academic.^[1] He is professor emeritus of modern American literature atQueens College, City University of New York.^[2][3][1]

Tytell's works on literary figures such asJack Kerouac,Ezra Pound,^[4]Allen Ginsberg,Henry Miller, andWilliam S. Burroughs have made him a leading scholar of theBeat Generation.^[5] He has written for theAmerican Scholar,Partisan Review,New York Times, andVanity Fair.^[1]

Tytell was born inAntwerp, Belgium.^[1]

• (2017).Beat Transnationalism. Beatdom Books.
• (2014).Writing Beat and Other Occasions of Literary Mayhem. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.
• (2014).The Beat Interviews. Temple, PA: Beatdom Books.
• (1999).Paradise Outlaws: Remembering the Beats. New York: William Morrow. Photographs byMellon Tytell.
• (1995).The Living Theatre: Art, Exile and Outrage. New York: Grove Press.
• (1991).Passionate Lives: D.H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath—In Love. New York: Carol Publishing Group.
• (1987).Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano. New York: Doubleday.
• (1976).Naked Angels: Lives and Literature of the Beat Generation. New York: McGraw Hill.

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• Writers from Antwerp

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