Known under the alias "Kenneth Wood" in Jack Kerouac's The Town and the City. Kerouac met Lucien Carr through Jack's then-girlfriend (later his wife) Edie Parker. Carr was a student at Columbia (where he became friends with Allen Ginsberg) who had aspirations to be a writer. David Kammerer was obsessively in love with Carr, & this eventually led to Carr's stabbing him, in self-defense, and throwing him in the Hudson River. The novelist Caleb Carr is Lucien Carr's son.