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Jack Kerouac - King of the Beats
1999
- 1999 · Docudrama · 1h 18m
Stella Sampas. . ( m. 1966) . Children. Jan Kerouac. Signature. Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac [1] ( / ˈkɛru.æk /; [2] March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet [3] who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation. [4] Of French-Canadian ancestry ...
May 10, 2024 · Jack Kerouac (born March 12, 1922, Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S.—died October 21, 1969, St. Petersburg, Florida) was an American novelist, poet, and leader of the Beat movement whose most famous book, On the Road (1957), had broad cultural influence before it was recognized for its literary merits. On the Road captured the spirit of its time as ...
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Apr 2, 2014 · Learn about Jack Kerouac, the American writer who pioneered the Beat Generation with his novel 'On the Road'. Explore his life, works, influences and legacy in this comprehensive biography.
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Filmed interview with John Sampas — Kerouac’s brother-in-law. and longtime director of the Kerouac Estate. Kerouac Retrieved. An exhibit from Kerouac’s last home, curated by UMass Lowell’s Kerouac Center. On Kerouac’s Lowell Novels. Lectures by Professor Todd Tietchen, editor of Library of America editions.
On the Road. 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.
- Jack Kerouac
- 320 pages
- 1957
- September 5, 1957
Learn about the life and literature of Jack Kerouac, the author of On the Road and a leader of the Beat Generation. Explore his influences, achievements, struggles, and legacy in this comprehensive profile.
Jack Kerouac was an American novelist, writer, poet, and artist born on March 12, 1922, in Lowell, Massachusetts to French Canadian parents, Léo-Alcide Kéroack (1889–1946) and Gabrielle-Ange Lévesque (1895–1973). There is some confusion surrounding his name, partly because of variations on the spelling of Kerouac, and because of Kerouac ...
