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Kitaj accumulated a wide and diverse range of friends over the course of his life.  He remained in close contact with his long-time acquaintances from the “School of London” artists—Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, and David Hockney—sharing work and observations about art and life with them.  Always anxious to extend beyond the confines of the art world, Kitaj developed warm relations with philosophers Isaiah Berlin, John Searle, and Richard Wollheim, as well as literary figures Philip Roth, Robert Duncan, Susan Sontag, Leon Wieseltier, and Robert Creeley.  He collaborated with Creeley on a beautiful edition of the latter’s poems.  He also paired with the poet Allen Ginsberg on an edition of the famous epic Kaddish, as well as with Lawrence Ferlinghetti on A Coney Island of the Mind.