Seymour Krim
Seymour Krim (May 11, 1922 – August 30, 1989) was an American author, editor and literary critic. He is often categorized with the writers of the Beat Generation. He wrote for the Village Voice, Playboy, New York Element and International Times, among many other publications. He worked for a time at The New Yorker, where Brendan Gill recalled he was often "stripped to the waist." Career Krim was born in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan and spent much of his time in New York City. He was widely regarded as part of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s; in 1965 he joined the New York Herald Tribune′s staff, which included Jimmy Breslin, Tom Wolfe and Dick Schaap. His robust prose was often laced with a startling, often funny, candor. In his introduction to Jack Kerouac's novel Desolation Angels, published in 1965, Krim argued for Kerouac's place in the annals of American literature. He taught writing seminars at a number of universities in the United States and abroad, including Mexico and Israel. In the early 1970s, he taught at the Iowa Writers Workshop. His honors included the Longview Award for Literature (1960), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1976) and a Fulbright