Famous Literary Friendships: From Boswell-Johnson to Kerouac-Ginsberg
From Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg to the kindred spirits Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud, literary history is full of famous and infamous friendships. John McIntyre on ten of the greatest ones ever.
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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James Boswell and Samuel Johnson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
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Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud
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Maxwell Perkins and Thomas Wolfe
Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell
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Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg
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Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson
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Norman Mailer and Jack Abbott
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