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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.
Nov 21, 2013 · by Mark Spitzer. The only child of Jack Kerouac, Jan Kerouac lived a colorful and chaotic life. 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 ...
Jul 23, 1984 · 3.74. 349 ratings38 reviews. Just as Jack Kerouac captured the beat of the '50s, his daughter captured the rhythm of the generation that followed. With a graceful, often disturbing detachment and a spellbinding gift for descriptive imagery, Jan Kerouac explores the tortured, freewheeling soul of a woman on her own road.
Mar 25, 2018 · Jan Kerouac - The World from PRX. Studio 360. March 24, 2018. Writer Jack Kerouac was best known for his 1957 book On the Road, and the free spirited Beat was nobody’s family man. Jan Kerouac only met her father twice, and as an adult she struggled to understand him.
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.
Jan Kerouac. Jan-Michelle Kerouac (born February 16, 1952 - died June 7, 1996) was the daughter of writer Jack Kerouac, by his second wife Joan Haverty. A writer herself, Jan's books included Baby Driver and Trainsong. She also appeared in some documentary programs about her father, giving her side of his life story.
About Jan Kerouac. Jan Kerouac, daughter of Beat Generation novelist Jack Kerouac, was born in 1952 in Albany, New York. Raised on the Lower East Side of New York, she traveled extensively in Mexico and South America in her teenage years and early twenties.
