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Janet Michelle "Jan" Kerouac (February 16, 1952 – June 5, 1996) was an American writer and the only child of beat generation author Jack Kerouac and Joan Haverty Kerouac.
Jun 8, 1996 · Jan Kerouac, a novelist and the only child of the Beat Generation's icon Jack Kerouac, died on Wednesday at Lovelace Medical Center here. She was 44. Ms. Kerouac died a day after her spleen was...
Nov 21, 2013 · She was a raven-haired, blue-eyed beauty who shot heroin at thirteen, became a prostitute, surpassed her father in globetrotting goofery, and published poetry, fiction, and two memoirs: Baby Driver (St. Martin’s, 1981) and Trainsong (Henry Holt, 1988).
Jun 26, 1997 · Jack Kerouac’s daughter, Ian Kerouac, died last summer in a hospital in New Mexico, a day after surgeons removed her spleen. Jan was 44. Five years earlier, her kidneys, strained by drug use...
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Photo by Gerald Nicosia. OH: One of the most striking aspects of “The Last Days of Jan Kerouac” is your degree of identification with Jan. In terms of background and upbringing you shared certain things, and it’s obvious that you respond with great empathy to a woman who was extremely vulnerable.
Jan Kerouac: A Life in Memory. Gerald Nicosia, Editor. Noodlebrain Press, Corete Madera, California, 2009 $12.95 paperback. Reviewed by Marc Olmsted. This new collection of memories asks us to reinvestigate Jan Kerouac the writer.
