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  1. Jack Kerouac Bio & Bibliography. About the Site. About the Kerouac Center. The Jack Kerouac Archive at UMass Lowell. Contact. Links to projects, talks, and essays about Jack Kerouac, sponsored by the Kerouac Center. NEW! Music and Musicians Under the Influence. Songs inspired by Kerouac.

  2. Mar 12, 2022 · Sat 12 Mar 2022 05.00 EST. Jack Kerouac – anti-establishment icon, revolutionary author of the American classic On the Road, pioneer of the Beat Generation and, perhaps most of all, enduring...

  3. Jack Kerouac - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. Born in 1922, the poet and novelist Jack Kerouac is said to have coined the term "Beat Generation," describing the down-and-out status of himself and his peers ...

  4. Mar 13, 2022 · Jack Kerouac: still roadworthy after 100 years. The author of On the Road had a messy, contradictory life. Yet he’s as relevant as ever – and not just for obsessed young men. David Barnett ...

  5. He studied at Lowell High School, the Horace Mann School in New York City, Columbia University, and The New School. He became famous as Jack Kerouac, author of On the Road (1957), the novel that is considered to be a quintessential statement of the 1950s literary movement known as the Beat Generation.

  6. 5 days ago · Jack Kerouac ’s two most popular books— On the Road and The Dharma Bums —showed people they could live a completely different way of life: a bohemian existence at odds with postwar American consumerism. Both books are about freedom. Both depict a life free from thirty-year mortgages, nine-to-five jobs, conventional relationships, and family responsibilities.

  7. jackkerouac.org › home-2 › bioJack Kerouac | bio

    Jack Kerouac | bio. A Biography, Bibliography, and Assorted Links. Jack in Fred W. McDarrah’s apartment, Dec. 10, 1959. Copyright: Fred McDarrah/Getty Images. Born Jean-Louis Kerouac, Kerouac is the most famous native son of Lowell, Massachusetts.

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