1. Herbert Edwin Huncke was an American writer and poet, and an active participant in a number of emerging cultural, social and aesthetic movements of the 20th century in America.
23 Facts About Herbert Huncke
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Herbert Huncke was a member of the Beat Generation and is reputed to have coined the term.
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Herbert Huncke left Chicago as a teenager after his parents divorced and began living as a hobo, jumping trains throughout the United States and bonding with other vagrants through shared destitution and common experience.
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Herbert Huncke was dropped off at 103rd and Broadway, and he asked the driver how to find 42nd Street.
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Herbert Huncke landed on the beach of Normandy three days after the invasion.
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Aboard ships, Herbert Huncke would overcome his drug addiction or maintain it with morphine syrettes supplied by the ship medic.
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Herbert Huncke became a close friend of Joan Adams Vollmer Burroughs, William's common-law wife, sharing with her a taste for amphetamines.
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Herbert Huncke was interviewed by Kinsey, and recruited fellow addicts and friends to participate.
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Herbert Huncke had been an unpublished writer since his days in Chicago, and gravitated toward literary types and musicians.
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Herbert Huncke was immortalized in Kerouac's On the Road as the character Elmo Hassel.
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Herbert Huncke was picked up simultaneously as he was living with Allen Ginsberg.
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Herbert Huncke was sentenced to a five year term in the New York State Prison System.
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When Herbert Huncke was released from prison on parole Little Jack's family set him up with a job in an ornamental glass company in Manhattan near 23rd Street.
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Herbert Huncke himself was a natural storyteller, a unique character with a paradoxically honest take on life.
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Later, after the formation of the so-called Beat Generation, members of the Beats encouraged Herbert Huncke to publish his notebook writings, which he did with limited success in 1965 with Diane DiPrima's Poet's Press.
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Herbert Huncke used the word "Beat" to describe someone living with no money and few prospects.
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Herbert Huncke coined the phrase in a conversation with Jack Kerouac, who was interested in how their generation would be remembered.
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Herbert Huncke's autobiography, titled Guilty of Everything, was recorded by sociologist Michael Agar in the early 1970s in R'lene Dahlberg's Third Avenue Apartment.
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In 1991, Herbert Huncke was crowned King of the Beaux Arts Ball.
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Herbert Huncke had been living for several years in a basement apartment on East 7th Street near Avenue D in New York City, supported financially by his friends.
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John Clellon Holmes described Albert Ancke, his representation of Herbert Huncke in Go in Chapter 14 of part 2:.
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Herbert Huncke never forgets his manners and you'd rarely think of him as Huncke the Junkie.
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Herbert Huncke starred in his only acting role in "The Burning Ghat" by James Rasin and Jerome Poynton.