John Tytell

John Tytell (born 1939) is an American writer and academic.

[1] He is professor emeritus of modern American literature at Queens College, City University of New York.

[2][3][1] Tytell's works on literary figures such as Jack Kerouac, Ezra Pound,[4] Allen Ginsberg, Henry Miller, and William S. Burroughs have made him a leading scholar of the Beat Generation.

[5] He has written for the American Scholar, Partisan Review, New York Times, and Vanity Fair.

[1] Tytell was born in Antwerp, Belgium.