City Lights Bookstore facts for kids
Quick facts for kids City Lights Bookstore |
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City Lights Bookstore, 2010
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| General information | |
| Type | Commercial |
| Location | 261-271 Columbus Avenue San Francisco, California |
| Coordinates | 37°47′51″N 122°24′24″W / 37.797628°N 122.406575°W |
| Designated: | 2001 |
| Reference #: | 228 |
City Lights is an independent bookstore-publisher combination in San Francisco, California, that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics. It also houses the nonprofit City Lights Foundation, which publishes selected titles related to San Francisco culture. It was founded in 1953 by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter D. Martin (who left two years later). Both the store and the publishers became widely known following the obscenity trial of Ferlinghetti for publishing Allen Ginsberg's influential collection Howl and Other Poems (City Lights, 1956). Nancy Peters started working there in 1971 and retired as executive director in 2007. In 2001, City Lights was made an official historic landmark. City Lights is located at 261 Columbus Avenue. While formally located in Chinatown, it self-identifies as part of immediately adjacent North Beach.
Images for kids
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights in 2007
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The poetry room.
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Howl and Other Poems was published in the fall of 1956 as number four in the Pocket Poets Series from City Lights Books
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See also
In Spanish: City Lights Bookstore para niños
