Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1926 to Louis Ginsberg and Naomi Livergant Ginsberg. Though born in Newark, New Jersey, he was brought up somewhere near Paterson. His father was a poet and a teacher. His mother suffered from a psychological sickness and was a member of Communist Party. As a teenager, Ginsberg started writing letters to The New When Ginsberg was new at Columbia, he got acquainted withLucien Carr, a fellow undergraduate, who introduced Ginsberg to many future Beat writers. Their friendship grew as all of them had similar views on American youth. Ginsberg and Carr both discussed enthusiastically over "New Vision" for America as well as literature. In 1948, Ginsberg experienced an auditory hallucination while reading the poetry of William Blake. He first assumed to have heard the voice of God, but later interpreted the voice as that of Blake himself. In New York, he got introduced with Gregory Corso, a famous American poet in the Pony Stable Bar, which was one of the city’s first open lesbian bars. Thereafter, he denoted considerable time in reading poems of Corso and realized that the latter was “spiritually gifted”. Ginsberg later dedicated his most famous poem, “Howl” to his friend Carl Solomon. Before 1955, this poem was also believed to be an autobiography of Ginsberg.