The Beats were a criticism of American complacency and an expression of new forms of literature that has constantly influenced our society and living. The Beat generation started from a group of American writers who emerged in the 1950s. Among many Beat Generation writers, most influential members were Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and Gary Snyder. All the writers have contributed to the literature society in their own different and unique way. Here in this essay, I will explore on unique characteristics or contributions that each writer has made on our literature society. Norman Mailer was a predominant writer in 1950s. He is mostly known as the writer of “White Negro”. He contributed on our literature by clarifying who Beat Generations are and how do we define them. In his essay The White Negro, he defined the Beatnik as young white people who like Jazz and swing music so much that they adopted black culture as their own. Beatniks adopted the African American vernacular language to differentiate themselves from the so-called “Mainstream”. The word they use is semantically flexible that words such as man, beat, cool, swing, with it, crazy, dig, flip, creep and hip can mean hundreds different things depending upon context to tone and rhythm. By further defining and exploring the meaning of Beat Generation, he allowed others to see what beat generation is truly about. Without his essay “The White Negro”, people would have interpreted Beat Generation merely as a group of drug addicted. Besides from Mailer, Allen Ginsberg has a huge impact on the Beat Generation. Allen Ginsberg, the visionary poet, inspired American counterculture with groundbreaking poem and the controversial work, Howl. His style of writing is unique and easily distinguishable from other Beat Generation writers. Communicating with readers is a crucial point when a writer writes a novel that in fact, a novel that does not effectively communicate with its readers is normally considered as amateur works. This is a line from his poem “Kaddish”: “Dreaming back thru life, Your time – and mine accelerating toward Apocalypse, the final moment – the flower burning in the day – and what comes after, looking back on the mind itself that saw an American city a flash away, and the great dream of Me or China, or you and a phantom Russia, or a crumpled bed never existed.” Readers of this poem will not understand most of what he wrote. His vagueness on his writing led him to start freely expressing on homosexuality and obscenity which no writers ever attempted to openly write before. This triggers other writers to write what they truly want to write about without being oppressed or worried for their publicity. Jack Kerouac is another Beat Generation writer who was one of the most influential writers in Beat Generation. His novel “On the road” became so famous that it even became a movie. Kerouac seeks different ways to express himself, and he found music, particularly by using jazz, as a new way of showing his emotion and feeling to people. In fact, the word “Beat” was primarily in use by jazz musicians and hustlers as a term meaning poor and exhausted. Kerouac used the word “Beat” to serve his own purposes, explaining it meant beatitude. He was linked in the public’s mind to the jazz world. In his novel “On the road”, he celebrated and invoked the music of Jazz musicians. His use of Jazz in his novel has contributed the Beat Generation to express their feeling in music. Burroughs has contributed on literature society by changing the structure of fiction. He used a technique called “Cut-ups”. In his cut-up technique, you take a page and cut down the middle, then you rearrange the sections placing section four with section one and section two with section three. Besides from changing the structure of fiction, he began to communicate with readers by expressing his opinion to change the society. In his novel “The naked Lunch”, he describes his own experiences and his addiction to drugs. The novel indirectly tells a lesson to its reader that whatever you do, you cannot run away from the reality. Gary Snyder is one of the most famous San Francisco Renaissance poets. His uniqueness and creativeness shown in his poems has inspired many people. He contributed on literature by combining poems and religions. “Once in the Jurassic about 150 million years ago, the Great Sun Buddha in this corner of the Infinite Void gave a Discourse to all the assembled elements and energies”, Gary Snyder, on his poem “Smokey the Bear Sutra”. He introduces Buddhism by writing the greatness of Buddha. Besides from religions, he expresses his thoughts on intrinsic value to all life and utilitarian value. In his poem “Mother Earth: Her Whales”, he explains how great the earth is and the importance of us respecting the beloved earth. He spread the idea of respecting the earth which led hipsters to take care of the environment. There are many writers that have contributed to our literature from Beat Generation. Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and Gary Snyder who were the acknowledged leader and spokesman for the beat generation have contributed the generation. It is almost as if that they are the creators of Beat Generation. Time has passed, and some of them had passed away long ago, but the masterpieces that they have created will not be forgotten forever.