Charters's other popular studies include Jazz: A History of the New York Scene (1962, with Leonard Kunstadt), The Poetry of the Blues (1963), and The Bluesmen (1967); some of those volumes featured photographs by his wife, Ann Charters, an American-literature professor and a Beat movement scholar.
His website soon featured a post on the debate between Professor Kim and Rachel Brown, siding with Brown, under the title, "Lady with a Sword Beats Down Fake Scholar with Facts and Fury".
Her mother is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut at Storrs and a scholar of Beat literature whose books include "Kerouac: A Biography" (Straight Arrow Books, 1973).
Moore has not ridden in public since injuring his shoulder and thumb in a fall on the final day of Glorious Goodwood in late July, but after partnering Workforce to beat his stable companion Dux Scholar by about a length over nine furlongs at the Esher track, he seemed content that his recovery is on schedule.
Columbus is the go-to answer, but there might have been some other Europeans who beat him, or this Islamist scholar who figured out it was there using math.
As a longtime scholar on the Beats, I find the current trend toward Kerouac bashing vexing.
Hoffman, whose choice for the Nobel Prize generated some controversy, beat out Michel Le Guern, a scholar on philosopher and scientist Blaise Pascal who earned a single vote, and six other candidates.
In his collected essays, he described his fellow Cambridge historian Sir Geoffrey Elton, who beat him out for the coveted Regius chair, as "a scholar whose capacity as a writer has slowly improved".
His store — located a few doors down from the cellar where John Mitchell would soon be showcasing the Beat poets — became a clearinghouse for musicians, record company men, scholars, and enthusiasts.
Instead of drinking beer and watching young football players beat each other's brains out, maybe shouldn't these "scholars" be in their dorms learning a foreign language or studying organic chemistry equations?
