Description
This collection documents the activities, writings, and political opinions of Ben Pleasants. Pleasants was a Los Angeles-based
writer, as well as a close friend of both Charles Bukowski and Steve Richmond, seminal figures in the Los Angeles "Meat School."
He published works on John Fante, Kenneth Rexroth, James Laughlin, Kate Braverman, Marge Piercy, Budd Schulberg, Lawrence
Ferlinghetti, and others. This collection spans from 1959 to 2013, and chronicles Pleasants' time in California as a poet,
playwright, interviewer, and novelist.
Background
Ben Pleasants was a Los Angeles-based writer. He was born on August 6, 1940 in Long Island, New York, and graduated from Hofstra
University in 1962 before moving to California with his first wife. He began graduate studies in English at the University
of California, Los Angeles in 1964.
Extent
4 linear feet
(4 boxes, 2 half-size boxes, 1 record carton, 5 shoeboxes)
Restrictions
Copyright to portions of this collection has been assigned to the UCLA Library Special Collections. The library can grant
permission to publish for materials to which it holds the copyright. All requests for permission to publish must be submitted
in writing to Library Special Collections. Credit shall be given as follows: The Regents of the University of California on
behalf of the UCLA Library Special Collections.
Availability
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