Michael Laudor’s life destroyed by schizophrenia: Friend Jonathan Rosen’s account

Left: Jonathan Rosen with his best friend Michael Laudor in the mid-1970s. Right: New York Post article about Michael Laudor on June 20, 1998. Photos / Tali Rosen, Supplied

Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl, published in 1956 with its iconic opening verse, “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness”, became one of the defining literary works of the 1960s. It was