1999Nominee
Best Performance
The Source
Michael McClure
Actor
Marysville, Kansas, USA
October 20, 1932
Biography
Michael McClure (October 20, 1932 – May 4, 2020) was an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist. After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poets (including Allen Ginsberg) who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955, which was barely fictionalized in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums. He soon became a key member of the Beat Generation and was immortalized as Pat McLear in Kerouac's Big Sur.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1978Winner
Best Performance
The Last Waltz
1969Nominee
Best Writing
Lions Love
Career Highlights
1957Highlight
Best Performance
Spectre Mystagogic
1971Highlight
Best Performance
The Hired Hand
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The Source
The Last Waltz
Lions Love