Jerry Kamstra

Who is Jerry Kamstra?

Jerry Kamstra is an American author and poet. A member of the beat generation, he is most widely known for his novel "The Frisco Kid", which details his experience living in North Beach in the 1950s, at height of the beat movement.

Famous Quotes:

• When I arrived in San Francisco in 1957 I discovered a community existing on the edge of the city unlike any other in America. Reckless, creative, frenetic, insane, it was too insane for a lot of people, for not many survived. I did, however, and in surviving came of age in the cheap pads and artists' lofts in North Beach. In the process I lost my innocence and my youth, but gained an indelible memory of a bunch of crazy people who lived, fought, struggled, loved, and even died together with a sense of elan and community that I had never experienced before nor have found since.