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 a famous independent bookstore and publisher located in San Francisco, California. It is known for selling books about world literature, different types of art, and ideas for making society better.
City Lights also has a special part called the City Lights Foundation. This is a nonprofit group that publishes books about the culture of San Francisco.
The bookstore was started in 1953 by a poet named Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter D. Martin. Peter D. Martin left the business two years later.
Both the bookstore and its publishing house became very well known because of a legal case. This happened after Ferlinghetti published a very important collection of poems called Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg in 1956.
Nancy Peters began working at City Lights in 1971. She later became the executive director and retired in 2007. In 2001, City Lights was officially named a historic landmark.
The bookstore is located at 261 Columbus Avenue. Even though it is formally in Chinatown, it sees itself as part of the nearby North Beach area.
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
