| THE HORN by John Clellon Holmes (Random House, 1958) | ||
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In this novel, Holmes based some of the main characters on a combination of both musical and literary figures. | ||
| Character name: | Real name: | |
| Walden Blue | Wardell Gray / Henry David Thoreau | |
| "Car-driver" ("who had it been?") | Neal Cassady (?) | |
| Cleo | ? | |
| Kelcey Crane | Stephen Crane | |
| "Dark-haired friend" | Jack Kerouac | |
| Geordie Dickson | Billie Holiday / Emily Dickinson | |
| Curny Finnley | Dizzy Gillespie / Mark Twain | |
| Billy James Henry | William James / Henry James | |
| Metro Myland | Willis Jackson / Walt Whitman | |
| Willy Owls | William Dean Howells | |
| Paul | John Clellon Holmes | |
| Edgar Pool | Lester Young - Charlie Parker / Edgar A.Poe | |
| Junius Priest | Thelonious Monk / Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
| Eddie Winfield "Wing" Redburn | Charlie Parker / Herman Melville | |
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