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  1. 16 hours ago · Jack Kerouac was one of the Beat Generation’s foremost figures, writing several novels. The most famous book he wrote was, of course, On the Road, which is hailed as being one of the foremost ...

  2. Jun 26, 2024 · The book was one of the first novels associated with the Beat movement of the 1950s. DETAIL: Jack Kerouac’s On the Road has become a classic text in American literary counterculture. Set in the aftermath of the Second World War, Sal Paradise’s account of his travels across America has become emblematic of the struggle to retain the freedom ...

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  3. 4 days ago · List of the best Jack Kerouac books, ranked by voracious readers in the Ranker community. With commercial success and critical acclaim, there's no doubt that Jack Kerouac is one of the most popular authors of the last 100 years.

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  4. 1 day ago · Officially known as the Jack Kerouac Writers In Residence, this non-profit provides aspiring writers with the opportunity to live in the house where Jack Kerouac lived while writing his 1958 novel The Dharma Burns. Kerouac lived there rent free for three months, around the same time that his 1957 novel On The Road became a sensation.

  5. 3 days ago · 1. The Alma Mater: Columbia University. Members of the Beat Generation lived in Hartley Hall at Columbia University. It was within the gates of Columbia University that Jack Kerouac, Allen...

  6. 16 hours ago · Novelist Fred Waitzkin ( Searching for Bobby Fischer) stops by to discuss Jack Kerouac, Ernest Hemingway, and his new novel Anything Is Good, which tells the story of a childhood friend who was a genius - and who ended up living among the unhoused for years. PLUS Michael Blanding ( In Shakespeare's Shadow: A Rogue Scholar's Quest to Reveal the ...

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  8. Jun 28, 2024 · Before they became the voices of the Beat Generation, the still unknown Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg were involved in a story of intrigue and murder that played out on...

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