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Lew Welch was an American poet and Beat Generation figure. He was born on August 16, 1926 in Phoenix, Arizona. He attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and was a member of the school's literary magazine, The Reed. He was also a member of the San Francisco Renaissance, a group of poets and writers who were active in the 1950s and 1960s.
Welch was a close friend of fellow Beat Generation writers Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder. He was also a mentor to the poet Jack Kerouac. Welch's work was published in several anthologies, including The New American Poetry 1945-1960 and The Beat Scene.
Welch's personal life was marked by depression and alcoholism. He disappeared in 1971 and was declared legally dead in 1975.
Welch was 45 years old when he disappeared. His net worth at the time of his disappearance is unknown.
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He is believed to have committed suicide, after leaving a note on May 23, 1971. His body was never found.
On May 23, 1971, Welch walked out of poet Gary Snyder's house in the mountains of California, leaving behind a suicide note. He had with him a stainless steel Smith & Wesson .22 caliber revolver. His body was never found.
Note: Before committing suicide in 1971, Lew Welch left a note naming Donald Allen his literary executor. Donald Allen published much of Welch's work posthumously via Grey Fox Press.
Jack Kerouac based his character Dave Wain in his novel Big Sur (1962) on Welch. In 1968, Welch signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.
Welch published and performed widely during the 1960s. He taught a poetry workshop as part of the University of California Extension in San Francisco, from 1965 to 1970.
Wanting to get back to poetry, Welch applied for a transfer to Montgomery Ward's Oakland headquarters. After the return to California, he started to get involved in the San Francisco literary scene. He soon gave up advertising and earned a living driving a cab while devoting more time to writing. He became an active participant in Beat culture, living at various times with Snyder and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. In 1960, poet Lenore Kandel met Welch and Snyder, who introduced her to many people in the Beat movement.
In 1948, Welch moved to Portland, Oregon, to attend Reed College. There he roomed with fellow poet Gary Snyder and also befriended Philip Whalen. Welch decided to become a writer after reading Gertrude Stein's long story "Melanctha." Welch wrote his thesis on Stein and published poems in student magazines. William Carlos Williams visited the college and met the three poets. He admired Welch's early poems and tried to get his Stein thesis published.
Welch was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and moved with his mother and sister to California in 1929. The family often moved, and he graduated from Palo Alto High School. He enlisted in the Army Air Forces in 1944 but never saw active service. He worked for a period before attending Stockton Junior College, where he developed an interest in the works of Gertrude Stein.
Lewis Barrett Welch Jr. (August 16, 1926 – May 1971?) was an American poet associated with the Beat generation literary movement.
