Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet. Ginsberg is best known for Howl (1956), a long poem celebrating his friends of the Beat Generation and attacking what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in the United States at the time. Ginsberg was born into a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby Paterson. His father Louis Ginsberg was a poet and a high school teacher.[1] Ginsberg's mother, Naomi Livergant Ginsberg (who was affected by epileptic seizures and mental illnesses such as paranoia[2]) was an active member of the Communist Party and often took Ginsberg and his brother Eugene to party meetings. Ginsberg later said that his mother "Made up bedtime stories that all went something like: 'The good king rode forth from his castle, saw the suffering workers and healed them.'"[3] 
As a young teenager, Ginsberg began to write letters to The New York Times about political issues such as World War II and workers' rights.[3] When he was in junior high school, he accompanied his mother by bus to her therapist. The trip disturbed Ginsberg — he mentioned it and other moments from his childhood in his long autobiographical poem "Kaddish for Naomi Ginsberg (1894-1956)."[2] While in high school, Ginsberg began reading Walt Whitman; he said he was inspired by his teacher's passion in reading.
In 1943, Ginsberg graduated from Eastside High School and briefly attended Montclair State University before entering Columbia University on a scholarship from the Young Men's Hebrew Association of Paterson, (1949).[4] While at Columbia, Ginsberg contributed to the Columbia Review literary journal, the Jester humor magazine, won the Woodberry Poetry Prize and served as president of the Philolexian Society, the campus literary and debate group.
As a young teenager, Ginsberg began to write letters to The New York Times about political issues such as World War II and workers' rights.[3] When he was in junior high school, he accompanied his mother by bus to her therapist. The trip disturbed Ginsberg — he mentioned it and other moments from his childhood in his long autobiographical poem "Kaddish for Naomi Ginsberg (1894-1956)."[2] While in high school, Ginsberg began reading Walt Whitman; he said he was inspired by his teacher's passion in reading.In 1943, Ginsberg graduated from Eastside High School and briefly attended Montclair State University before entering Columbia University on a scholarship from the Young Men's Hebrew Association of Paterson, (1949).[4] While at Columbia, Ginsberg contributed to the Columbia Review literary journal, the Jester humor magazine, won the Woodberry Poetry Prize and served as president of the Philolexian Society, the campus literary and debate group.
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (Newark, New Jersey, Amerikai Egyesült Államok, 1926. június 3. – New York, 1997. április 5.) amerikai költő.A Columbia egyetem elvégzése után bejárta a fél világot, és rengeteg foglalkozást űzött. Ezalatt tanulmányozta a klasszikus irodalmat, költészetet, a keleti filozófiákat és a kábítószerek hatását az emberi tudatállapotra.
New Yorkban ismerkedett meg Jack Kerouackal, aki nagy hatással volt rá. 1955-ben San Franciscóban telepedett le. Itt és ekkor jelent meg a Howl and Other Poems, a ma már klasszikus költészeti antológia, többek között Ginsberg verseivel (magyarul: Üvöltés, 1967.) A kötetet követően Ginsberg a beat-nemzedék egyik irodalmi vezéralakjává vált.
Költészetét az amerikai életforma és kultúra elutasítása, emellett később a miszticizmus jellemzi.
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