Ed Sanders

Ed Sanders:  attended New York University and earned a BA in ancient Greek. After college, he remained in New York City, where he opened the Peace Eye Bookstore and started Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts. He helped bridge the gap between the Beat generation and the countercultural movement of the 1960s. He is the author of more than a dozen collections of poetry and several biographies in verse. Among his books of prose include The Family (1971), which examines the Charles Manson murders. His honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is a founding member of the subversive, satirical folk–rock music group the Fugs. In 2018 he published Broken Glory: The Final Years of Robert F. Kennedy. He lives in Woodstock, New York.