Michael McClure
American poet
Died when: 87 years 197 days (1050 months)Star Sign: Libra
Michael McClure (October 20, 1932 – May 4, 2020) was an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist.After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poets (including Allen Ginsberg) who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955, which was rendered in barely fictionalized terms in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums.
He soon became a key member of the Beat Generation and was immortalized as Pat McLear in Kerouac's Big Sur.
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