Beat Generation is a play written by Jack Kerouac upon returning home to Florida after his seminal work On the Road had been published in 1957.
A part of Beat Generation went on to provide the script for the 1959 film Pull My Daisy, which starred Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers, Alice Neel, David Amram, Richard Bellamy and Delphine Seyrig.
[3] It was named after the poem "Pull My Daisy" by Kerouac, Ginsberg and Neal Cassady.
[5] Since then excerpts have appeared in Best Life Magazine (July 2005), and the play has been published by Thunders Mouth Press.
[6] It was announced the play would be presented in a staged reading format by Merrimack Repertory Theatre and the University of Massachusetts Lowell.