Harold Norse, born as Harold Rosen on July 6, 1916 in Brooklyn, New York, was part of the renowned generation of beat writers. Norse was a well-known poet and writer during the beat generation due to his works involving homosexual identity and sexuality as well as political content. In Norse’s autobiography, “Memoirs of a Bastard Angel: A Fifty-Year Literary and Erotic Odyssey”, he wrote that him being born “was an unmentionable outrage”. Norse was the product of an affair between his Lithuanian immigrant mother and a German-American soldier. His father eventually split the scene once he found out Norse’s mother was pregnant. In his autobiography, Norse reveals that his grandmother considered him “no less than son of the Devil” and that his