1. Lenore Kandel was an American poet, affiliated with the Beat Generation and Hippie counterculture.
13 Facts About Lenore Kandel
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Lenore Kandel returned to New York to attend The New School for Social Research on scholarship for three and a half years before she dropped out.
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Lenore Kandel began living in the East-West House co-op, where she met Jack Kerouac, who later immortalized her as Romana Swartz, "a big Rumanian monster beauty", in his novel Big Sur.
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Lenore Kandel was briefly notorious as the author of a short book of poetry, The Love Book.
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Lenore Kandel was a speaker at the Human Be-In in the Golden Gate Park polo fields on January 14,1967.
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The only woman to speak from the stage, Lenore Kandel defiantly read from The Love Book.
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Lenore Kandel published her only full-length book of poems, Word Alchemy, in 1967.
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Lenore Kandel was one of 15 people interviewed in Voices from the Love Generation.
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In 1976, Lenore Kandel recited a poem at the iconic concert The Last Waltz performed by The Band.
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In 1970, Lenore Kandel suffered massive spinal injuries in a motorcycle crash with her then-husband Billy "Sweet Wiliam" Fritsch.
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Lenore Kandel died at home on October 18,2009, of complications from lung cancer, with which she had been diagnosed several weeks earlier.
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Lenore Kandel appears in the Digger film Nowsreal, sewing a Hells Angel patch on William Fritsch's jacket.
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Lenore Kandel appears in the Kenneth Anger film Invocation of My Demon Brother, with William Fritsch, smoking a marijuana cigarette contained in a miniature skull.