"Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB)", Volume 16 (1983)

 

Detroit, Michigan, US: Gale Research Company and Book Tower (reference book), 1983.
Part 1: 11.25" x 8.625" x 1", 357 pages, hardcover in blue cloth boards, no dust jacket.
Part 2: 11.25" x 8.625" x 1", 361 pages, hardcover in blue cloth boards, no dust jacket.
Together: ISBN 0-8103-1148-8. 

The two books in volume 16 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB), subtitled The Beats: Literary Bohemians in Postwar America, edited by Ann Charters and published by Gale Research Company and Book Tower (Detroit, Michigan, US) in 1983, in uncovered hardcovers. The DLB is a long series with many volumes beyond this volume 16.

In Part 1, Terry Wilson writes the entry for Brion Gysin, on pages 241–247. This includes three photographs of Brion Gysin [by Carl Van Vechten, Gerard Malanga, and Ira Cohen], a reproduction of one of Gysin's 1958 calligraphic drawings, a short bibliography, and references.

The endpapers of Part 1 include a photograph of Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs by Gerard Malanga. This image is also reproduced on page 244.

Gysin is generally absent in Part 2 of Volume 16, with some minor references in Jenie Skerl's "A Beat Chronology: The First Twenty-Five Years" and some connections to the periodicals in George F. Butterick's "Periodicals of the Beat Generation."

Part 1 Contents: 

• Ann Charters: Foreword
• Permissions
• Acknowledgments
• James A. Miller: "Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)"
• Edith Jarolim: "Paul Blackburn"
• Michael Perkins: "Bonnie Bremser"
• Arnold Moodnik and Mikhail Horowitz: "Ray Bremser"
• Samuel Charters: "Chandler Brossard"
• Jennie Skerl: "William S. Burroughs"
• Jennie Skerl and James Grauerholz: "William S. Burroughs, Jr."
• Douglas K. Macdonald: "Paul Carroll"
• Joy Walsh: "Carolyn Cassady"
• Gerald Nicosia: "Neal Cassady"
• Tom Swartz and Michael Wojczuk: "Andy Clausen"
• Marilyn Schwartz: "Gregory Corso"
• Ekbert Faas: "Robert Creeley"
• George F. Butterick: "Diane DiPrima [sic, di Prima]" 
• Raymond Foye: "Kirby Doyle"
• Michael Davidson: "Robert Duncan"
• Joseph Wenke: "Bob Dylan"
• James A. Powell: "William Everson (Brother Antoninus)"
• Larry Smith: "Lawrence Ferlinghetti"
• Paul Christensen: "Allen Ginsberg"
• Terry Wilson: "Brion Gysin"
• Richard Kirk Ardinger: "John Clellon Holmes"
• Arthur Winfield Knight: "Herbert Huncke"
• James A. Miller: "Ted Joans"
• Donna Nance: "Lenore Kandel"
• A. D. Winans: "Bob Kaufman"
• George Dardess: "Jack Kerouac"
• Gerald Nicosia: "Jan Kerouac"
• Ann Charters: "Ken Kesey"
• Joseph Wenke: "Seymour Krim"
• Joseph Wenke: "Tuli Kupferberg"
• Bill Berkson: "Joanne Kyger"
• Nancy J. Peters: "Philip Lamantia"
• John Clellon Holmes: "Jay Landesman / Fran Landesman"
• Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shalin: "Timothy Leary"
• Nettie Lipton: "Lawrence Lipton"
• Contributors

Part 2 Contents: 

• Permissions 
• Acknowledgments
• Joseph Wenke: "Norman Mailer"
• George F. Butterick: "Edward Marshall"
• Michael McClure: "Joanna McClure"
• William R. King: "Michael McClure"
• Gordon Ball: "Taylor Mead"
• Robert Hawley and Ann Charters: "David Meltzer"
• Gerald Nicosia: "Jack Micheline"
• Jim Christy: "John Montgomery"
• Kit Knight: "Harold Norse"
• Bill Berkson: "Frank O'Hara"
• Paul Christensen: "Charles Olson"
• Ann Charters: "Peter Orlovsky"
• Larry Smith: "Kenneth Patchen"
• Paul Vangelisti: "Stuart Z. Perkoff"
• Brown Miller: "Charles Plymell"
• Hugh Fox: "Dan Propper"
• Brown Miller and Ann Charters: "Kenneth Rexroth"
• George F. Butterick: "Michael Rumaker"
• George F. Butterick: "Ed Sanders"
• Dan McLeod: "Gary Snyder"
• Tom Collins: "Carl Solomon"
• Michael Davidson: "Jack Spicer"
• Pat Nolan: "Charles Upton"
• R'lene H. Dahlberg: "Janine Pommy Vega"
• Ann Charters: "Anne Waldman"
• Dan McLeod: "Alan Watts"
• Samuel Charters: "Lew Welch"
• Paul Christensen: "Philip Whalen"
• Raymond Foye: "John Wieners"
• Paul Christensen: "William Carlos Williams"
• Appendices:
• Jennie Skerl: "A Beat Chronology: The First Twenty-Five Years"
• Carolyn Cassady: "As I See It"
• Joyce Johnson: "Outlaw Days"
• John Clellon Holmes: "Four Essays on the Beat Generation":
• "The Name of the Game"
• "This Is the Beat Generation (1952)"
• "The Philosophy of the Beat Generation (1958)"
• "The Game of the Name (1965)"
• Kenneth Rexroth: "The Commercialization of the Image of Revolt"
• George F. Butterick: "Periodicals of the Beat Generation"
• Books for Further Reading
• Contributors
• Cumulative Index