Harry Fainlight

Harry Fainlight (1935–1982) was born into a Jewish family in New York and raised in England. After university, he worked as an ad executive in London. He visited New York in the 1960s, where he befriended several of the famous Beat poets of the time, including Allen Ginsberg, and published work in C: A Journal of Poetry, edited by New York School poet Ted Berrigan. After returning to London, Fainlight was part of the International Poetry Incarnation at the Royal Albert Hall where he suffered a severe breakdown. He became increasingly more isolated before retreating to rural Wales in the 1970s, where he later died of pneumonia.

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