About
An American counterculture author, musician, and cartoonist, he became famous for 1001 Ways to Beat the Draft, published in 1967. He is also known as the co-founder of The Fugs, a 1960s New York band.
Before Fame
He was born into a New York Jewish family and graduated from Brooklyn College in 1944.
Trivia
He identified as a pacifist anarchist during the Vietnam War era.
Family Life
He was married to Sylvia Topp. He was heavily involved in New York literary circles that included such Beat poets as Allen Ginsberg and Ed Sanders.
Associated With
His rock band, The Fugs, was named after the word that author Norman Mailer substituted for a harsher obscenity in his novel The Naked and the Dead.
