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Jonah Raskin (born January 3, 1942) is an American writer who left an East Coast university teaching position to participate in the 1970s radical counterculture as a freelance journalist, then returned to the academy in California in the 1980s to write probing studies of Abbie Hoffman and Allen Ginsberg and reviews of northern California ...
May 12, 2024 · Jonah Raskin is the author of biographies of Jack London, Allen Ginsburg, and Abbie Hoffman. A recent title is the noir murder mystery, Dark Day, Dark Night, which is set in the present day in California’s wine and weed country. His latest novel is Beat Blues, San Francisco, 1955.
Jonah Raskin, professor emeritus at Sonoma State University, is the author of 14 books, including biographies of Jack London, Allen Ginsberg, and Abbie Hoffman. His new book of poetry is The...
Feb 6, 2006 · Jonah Raskin's study, "American Scream" (2004) tells the story of "Howl" and how Ginsberg (1926 -- 1997) came to write it. Raskin, Professor of Communication Studies at Sonoma State University, offers an informative, sympathetic study of Ginsberg which traces the many literary and personal influences that coalesced in his great poem.
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Jonah Raskin (born January 3, 1942) is an American writer who left an East Coast university teaching position to participate in the 1970s radical counterculture as a freelance journalist, then returned to the academy in California in the 1980s to write probing studies of Abbie Hoffman and Allen Ginsberg and reviews of northern California writers...
Jonah Raskin, professor emeritus at Sonoma State University, is the author of 14 books, including biographies of Jack London, Allen Ginsberg, and Abbie Hoffman.
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Sep 1, 2014 · In A Terrible Beauty: The Wilderness of American Literature, Jonah Raskin takes a long close look at the forest of books that poets, novelists and essayists mapped and explored before and after Thoreau.
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