Allen Ginsberg

Misc. : None | Mystical Experience 1948 (Series of visions) | Social : None | Institutionalized - prison, hospital 1948 (Eight months in an institution) | : None | Death of Mother 1956 | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1956 (Published his poem "Howl") | Social : None | Joined group 1972 (Took Buddhist vows) | Work : None | Prize 1973 (National Book Award) | Work : None | Gain social status 1995 (Runner-up for Pulitzer Prize) | Traits : Personality | Unique (Addressed existing taboos) | Diagnoses : Major Diseases | Cancer (Liver, terminal) | Diagnoses : Major Diseases | Other Major diseases (Hepatitis, Bell's Palsy) | Diagnoses : Psychological | Abuse Drugs (Heavy) | Family : Childhood | Sibling circumstances (One brother) | Family : Parenting | Kids none | Passions : Sexuality | Homosexual male | Personal : Religion/Spirituality | Mystical experience (Series of visions) | Personal : Religion/Spirituality | Conversion/ Born again (Became a Buddhist, took vows) | Vocation : Business | Consultant (Market consultant) | Vocation : Writers | Fiction | Vocation : Writers | Poet | Notable : Awards | Vocational award (National Book Award) | Notable : Book Collection | American Book