Famous Counterculture Heavyweights

• Abbey, Edward

  Author of The Monkey Wrench Gang

• Brautigan, Richard

  Author of Trout Fishing in America

• Burroughs, William S.

  The author of Naked Lunch

• Garcia, Jerry

  Leader of The Grateful Dead

• Ginsberg, Allen

  The Beat-era poet who wrote Howl

• Kerouac, Jack

  Beat-era author of On The Road

• Kesey, Ken

  Author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

• Leary, Timothy

  The drug-taking professor who said "Turn on, tune in, drop out"

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