John Long (4) (1941–)

#4 John Long (born 1941 in Chicago) graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1963. He went on to study law at Stanford, at a time when nearby San Francisco had become the mecca of the Beat Generation. He authored Drugs and the 'Beats'.
As a student during the turbulent sixties, he had first-hand knowledge of the drug scene and the "hippie" phenomenon, and a continuing interest in these visionary writers. Though the author moved to France permanently in 1972, his interest in the beatniks never waned, and they became the subject of his doctoral thesis, accorded highest honors at the Sorbonne in 1980.