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Jack Kerouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. [1]
Jack Kerouac Papers Archived June 24, 2010, at the Wayback Machine at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Columbia University; Jack Kerouac Papers, 1920–1977 Archived August 17, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, held by the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library
Pages in category "Novels by Jack Kerouac" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
On the Road is a 1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States.It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug use.
Books by Jack Kerouac (3 P) N. Novels by Jack Kerouac (1 C, 18 P) P. Poetry by Jack Kerouac (5 P) Pages in category "Works by Jack Kerouac" The following 3 pages are ...
Pages in category "Books by Jack Kerouac" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Book of Sketches; G.
The book concerns duality in Kerouac's life and ideals, examining the relationship of the outdoors, mountaineering, hiking, and hitchhiking through the western US with his "city life" of jazz clubs, poetry readings, and drunken parties. The protagonist's search for a "Buddhist" context to his experiences (and those of others he encounters ...
Big Sur is a 1962 novel by Jack Kerouac, written in the fall of 1961 over a ten-day period, with Kerouac typewriting onto a teletype roll. [1] It recounts the events surrounding Kerouac's (here known by the name of his fictional alter-ego Jack Duluoz) three brief sojourns to a cabin in Bixby Canyon, Big Sur, California, owned by Kerouac's friend and Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti; at the same ...