Literary Nonfiction. Biography. United States History. WHITE HAND SOCIETY weaves a fascinating and entertaining tale of the life, times and friendship of these two larger-than-life figures and the incredible impact their relationship had on America. Peter Conners has gathered hundreds of pages of letters, documents, studies, FBI files, and other primary resources that shed new light on their relationship, and a veritable who's who of artists and cultural figures appear along the way, including Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Thelonious Monk, Willem de Kooning, and Barney Rosset. The story of the "psychedelic partnership" of two of the most famous, charismatic and controversial members of America's counterculture brings together a multitude of major figures from politics, the arts, and the intersection of intellectual life and outlaw culture in a way that sheds new light on the dawn of the 1960s.

Author City: ROCHESTER, NY USA

Peter Conners was born September 11, 1970, in a small town called America. His published books include the prose poetry collections THE CROWS WERE LAUGHING IN THEIR TREES and OF WHISKEY AND WINTER, and the novella EMILY ATE THE WIND. His memoir, Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead, was published by Da Capo Press in March 2009. He is also editor of PP/FF: AN ANTHOLOGY, published by Starcherone Books in April 2006, and author of WHITE HAND SOCIETY: THE PSYCHEDELIC PARTNERSHIP OF TIMOTHY LEARY & ALLEN GINGSBER, published by City Lights in November 2010. His writing appears regularly in such journals as Poetry International, Mississippi Review, Brooklyn Rail, Fiction International, Salt Hill, Hotel Amerika, Mid-American Review, The Bitter Oleander, and Beloit Fiction Journal.

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