Seymour Krim

Seymour Krim (May 11, 1922 – August 30, 1989) was an American author, editor and literary critic. He is often categorized with the writers of the Beat Generation. He wrote for the Village Voice, Playboy, New York Element and International Times, among many other publications. He worked for a time at The New Yorker, where Brendan Gill recalled he was often "stripped to the waist."

Krim was part of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s. His deepest foray into daily journalism began in 1965 when he joined the New York Herald Tribune′s staff which included Jimmy Breslin, Tom Wolfe and Dick Schaap. While at the Trib for the last months of its life, he wrote articles that stirred a response among the city's literati as well as in the city room. His big, rolling prose was often laced with a startling, often funny, candor that connected with the emerging creative mind. In his introduction to Jack Kerouac's novel Desolation Angels, published in 1965, Krim brilliantly made the case for Kerouac's place in the annals of American literature.

Krim was born in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan, and spent much of his time in New York City. He taught writing seminars at a number of universities in the United States and abroad (including Mexico and Israel). For several years during the early 1980s he served as head of The Writers Workshop in Iowa City. In 1960, he was given the Longview Award for Literature. In 1976 he won a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and in 1985 a Fulbright grant. After suffering from a number of physical setbacks, including a debilitating heart attack, Krim committed suicide in his one-room apartment on East 10th Street by an overdose of barbiturates on August 30, 1989, at the age of 67 years, 3 months, and 19 days.

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