John Gilmore emerged as a writer from the Beat Generation in the '60s, influenced by a novelist born in which year ?
Jack Kerouac Jack Kerouac ( or , born Jean-Louis Kérouac (though he called himself Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac); March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet.
Felipe Alfau Felipe Alfau (1902–1999) was a Spanish-born American novelist and poet. Like his contemporaries Luigi Pirandello and Flann O'Brien, Alfau is considered a forerunner of later postmodern writers such as Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, Donald Barthelme, and Gilbert Sorrentino.