Birth of the Cool Beat, Bebop, and the American Avant-Garde

A two-time winner of the World Heavyweight Poetry Championship,Lewis MacAdamsis the author of ten books of poetry, a film documentarian (What Happened to Kerouac?, Eric Bogosian's FunHouse,andThe Battle of the Bards), and an award-winning writer forRolling Stone, Actuel, Los Angeles Times Magazine,andL.A. Weekly,among many others. Born in West Texas, MacAdams graduated from Princeton in 1966 but got most of his education following beat poet Gregory Corso around the Village and the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles.MacAdams, Lewis is the author of 'Birth of the Cool Beat, Bebop, and the American Avant-Garde', published 2001 under ISBN 9780684813547 and ISBN 0684813548.