Editing Paterson, New Jersey (section)

=== Literature ===

* Paterson is the subject of [[William Carlos Williams]]' five-book epic poem ''[[Paterson (poem)|Paterson]]'', a cornerstone work of modern American poetry.<ref name="Reuters" /> 
* Paterson is also mentioned in the twelfth line of Part 1 of [[Allen Ginsberg]]'s poem ''[[Howl (poem)|Howl]]''. In the novel ''[[On the Road]]'' by Ginsberg's friend [[Jack Kerouac]], the protagonist Sal Paradise lives with his aunt in Paterson. Kerouac may have chosen Paterson as a stand-in for his hometown of [[Lowell, Massachusetts]], also a mill town with a waterfall.<ref>Schiller, Kristan. [https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/07/home/kerouac-jersey.html "Kerouac's 'On the Road' And Its Jersey Ties"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 4, 1994. Accessed May 21, 2013. "Kerouac was born and raised in the Merrimack River valley town of Lowell, Mass., and lived in Ozone Park, Queens, with his mother, Gabrielle Ange Levesque Kerouac, when he started writing ''On the Road.'' He imagined himself in the story as Salvatore Paradise, a young writer attempting a novel while living with an unnamed aunt in another American city – Paterson, N.J."</ref> 
* Paterson is the setting of many of [[Junot Díaz]]'s short stories and novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning ''[[The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao]]'', and [[John Updike]]'s 1997 novel ''[[In the Beauty of the Lilies]].''<ref>[[Julian Barnes|Barnes, Julian]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/04/06/lifetimes/updike-lilies.html "Grand Illusion"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 28, 1996. Accessed May 3, 2012.</ref>
* ''The Poisoned Glass'' (2019) by Kimberly Tilley is the true story of the murder of [[Jennie Bosschieter|17-year-old immigrant Jennie Bosschieter]] in October 1900. (true crime/non-fiction/American history). Jennie worked in the silk mills of Paterson. She was given absinthe spiked with a lethal amount of a date rape drug by four prominent citizens, who were later the defendants in a sensational murder trial in 1901.