Tuli Kupferberg

Biography

Naphtali "Tuli" Kupferberg was a multifaceted American counterculture figure, born into a Jewish household in New York City. He graduated cum laude from Brooklyn College in 1944 and went on to found the magazine Birth in 1958. A key figure in the Fugs, a satirical rock group he formed with poet Ed Sanders in 1964, Kupferberg was also an outspoken advocate for pacifist anarchism. His life took a dramatic turn when he jumped from the Manhattan Bridge in 1944.