 Shig Murao

Shigeyoshi "Shig" Murao (December 8, 1926 – October 18, 1999) was a Japanese-American bookseller who is mainly remembered as the City Lights clerk who was arrested on June 3, 1957, for selling Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" to an undercover San Francisco police officer.In the trial that followed, Murao was charged with selling the book and Lawrence Ferlinghetti with publishing it.