![]() ![]() According to Carr, his father was an alcoholic, psychologically abusive to his mother and brothers, often singling out Caleb, the middle son, for physical abuse that continued even after his parents divorced when he was eight. The Carr household was not a safe place for the three sons. What the hell was going on? It never made any sense.” “I would sit at the top of the stairs, listening,” said Caleb Carr, from his home in upstate New York, “trying to figure it out. The drunken parties would often end in screaming and fighting, with furniture breaking. Lucien Carr had brought these men together at Columbia University in the 1940s. ![]() His journalist father Lucien Carr would have loud, wild parties with the writers Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, and the poet Allen Ginsberg, the literary trio at the heart of the Beat Generation in the 1950s. In 1960, the writer and military historian Caleb Carr was five years old and living with his family in a small house on Horatio Street in Greenwich Village. ![]()
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