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Jonah Raskin (born January 3, 1942) is an American writer who left an East Coast university teaching position to participate in the 1970s radical counterculture as a freelance journalist, then returned to the academy in California in the 1980s to write probing studies of Abbie Hoffman and Allen Ginsberg and reviews of northern California ...
26 Jun 2024 · Jonah Raskin was 10 in 1952, during the height of the anti-communist fervor of the Cold War. His father was an attorney, among the vast intellectual class swept up in McCarthyism, the campaign to expose suspected Soviet sympathizers.
Jonah Raskin, professor emeritus at Sonoma State University, is the author of 14 books, including biographies of Jack London, Allen Ginsberg, and Abbie Hoffman. His new book of poetry is The...
Jonah Raskin is the author of eight poetry chapbooks and a book about Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," titled American Scream; he is also editor of nonfiction at Caveat Lector. He has been writing and performing poetry for more than forty years.
8 Mei 2022 · At Readers’ Books on May 15 at 2 p.m., prolific author Jonah Raskin will discuss writing historical fiction using real people as characters, a technique he has explored in several books, including his latest, Beat Blues: San Francisco, 1955. Here, a review of that work by Christian Kallen.
26 Apr 2024 · Jonah Raskin is the author of biographies of Jack London, Allen Ginsburg, and Abbie Hoffman. His latest novel is “Beat Blues, San Francisco, 1955.” His writing appears in a variety of venues and covers topics as varied as food, farming, and the wilderness.
Jonah Raskin is an American writer who left an East Coast university teaching position to participate in the 1970s radical counterculture as a free-lance journalist, then returned to the...
