TWA Poets: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

March 24, 1919

It’s the birthday of American poet and painter Lawrence Ferlinghetti (books by this author), born in Bronxville, New York (1919). His mother was French and his father worked as an auctioneer in Little Italy. He died when Ferlinghetti was six months old and his mother was committed to an asylum shortly after. Ferlinghetti’s aunt whisked him to France, wh…