Editing Beat Generation (section)

==Significant figures==
{{External media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?76140-1/biographers-beat-era-writers Discussion of biographies of Beat poets Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Bob Kaufman, and others, October 22, 1996], [[C-SPAN]]}}
Burroughs was introduced to the group by [[David Kammerer]]. Carr had befriended Ginsberg and introduced him to Kammerer and Burroughs. Carr also knew Kerouac's girlfriend [[Edie Parker]], through whom Burroughs met Kerouac in 1944.

On August 13, 1944, Carr killed Kammerer with a Boy Scout knife in [[Riverside Park (Manhattan)|Riverside Park]] in what he claimed later was self-defense.<ref>Knight, Brenda, ''Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists, and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution'', 978-1573241380, Conari Press, 1998.</ref> He dumped the body in the [[Hudson River]], later seeking advice from Burroughs, who suggested he turn himself in. He then went to Kerouac, who helped him dispose of the weapon.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/books/11kaku.html|title=A Jack Kerouac-William S. Burroughs Collaboration: 'And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks'|last=Kakutani|first=Michiko|date=2008-11-10|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-09-12|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Carr turned himself in the following morning and later pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Kerouac was charged as an accessory, and Burroughs as a material witness, but neither were prosecuted. Kerouac wrote about this incident twice in his works: once in his first novel, ''[[The Town and the City]]'', and again in one of his last, ''[[Vanity of Duluoz]]''. He wrote a collaboration novel with Burroughs, ''[[And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks]]'', concerning the murder.<ref name=":1" />