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Shigeyoshi "Shig" Murao (村尾 重芳, Murao Shigeyoshi, b.December 8, 1926 – d. October 18, 1999) was a Japanese-American bookseller who is mainly remembered as the City Lights manager and clerk who was arrested on June 3, 1957, for selling Allen Ginsberg's Howl to an undercover San Francisco police officer. [1]
City Lights was the inspiration of Peter D. Martin, who relocated from New York City to San Francisco in the 1940s to teach sociology.He first used City Lights, in homage to the Chaplin film, in 1952 as the title of a magazine, publishing early work by such key Bay Area writers as Philip Lamantia, Pauline Kael, Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, and Ferlinghetti himself, as "Lawrence Ferling".
The store has remained independent and family-owned since its founding, [1] and it is considered a community space for African-American and literary culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. [3] The former bookstore building, located at 1712–1716 Fillmore Street has been listed as a San Francisco Designated Landmark, since 2013. [4]
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the acclaimed Beat movement champion, poet and publisher who owned the iconic City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, has died at age 101.
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