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Who were Allen Ginsberg's close friends at Columbia University?

  • Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac

  • T.S. Eliot and Robert Frost

  • Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats

Answer

While studying at Columbia University, Allen Ginsberg formed close friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. These relationships were instrumental in the formation of the Beat Generation, a literary movement that rejected conventional society and celebrated non-conformity and spontaneous creativity.
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