John Tytell's "Naked Angels", Grove Press Edition (1986)

New York City: Evergreen / Grove Press (book, biography, essay), 1986
8.25" x 5.5" x 0.875", 274 pages, softcover, ISBN 0-394-62179-4.

Naked Angels: The Lives and Literature of the Beat Generation by John Tytell, as published as an Evergreen book by Grove Press (New York City) in 1986.  This was originally published in 1976 by McGraw-Hill.

Less a sweeping study of the range of Beat writers and more a “study of the lives and works of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William S. Burroughs”.

This includes two sections on Burroughs: first, a biography at pages 36-51, and, second, “The Black Beauty of William Burroughs”, an essay on Burroughs, pp. 111-139.

There are also photos of Burroughs by Mellon and Allen Ginsberg in a center photo section within the book.

Contents:

• The Broken Circuit
• First Conjunctions:
• William Burroughs
• Jack Kerouac
• Allen Ginsberg
• photo section
• The Books:
• The Black Beauty of William Burroughs
• Jack Kerouac: Eulogist of Spontaneity
• Allen Ginsberg and the Messianic Tradition
• Afterword
• Notes and Acknowledgments
• Selected Bibliography
• Index