John Clellon Holmes (1926-1988) was an essayist, poet, and novelist; and was a sometime member of the Beat Generation. He published GO in 1952; The Horn, a novel about jazz, would follow in 1958, and Get Home Free, depicting the later fate of two characters from Go, would appear in 1964.
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