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Big Sur by Jack Kerouac

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Author Biography

Name: Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
Variant Name: Jack Kerouac
Birth Date: March 12, 1922
Death Date: October 21, 1969
Place of Birth: Lowell, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Death: St. Petersburg, Florida, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
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Jean-Louis Lebris de (Jack) Kerouac (1922-1969), American writer, experimented with spontaneous autobiographical fiction chronicling his travels into the American West. He is known as the father of the Beat Generation. Rambling. Wandering. Overflowing. L...
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Biography of Jack Kerouac
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Jack Kerouac, once called "our most misunderstood and underestimated writer," is gradually emerging from that limbo, though much about him remains obscure. The obscurity results from a misreading of his books by critics who, borne along by Cold War preju...
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Biography of Jack Kerouac
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Jack Kerouac died, as he had spent much of his adult life, writing. The morning of October 20, 1969, he was sitting in front of his television at his home in St. Petersburg, Florida, jotting down notes when a vein in his stomach ruptured. A hard-drinking...
 


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Big Sur is a 1962 novel by Jack Kerouac. It recounts the time when Kerouac (here known by the name of his fictional alter-ego Jack Duluoz), at the height of his fame, stayed at a cabin in Big Sur, owned by Kerouac's friend and Beat poet Lawrence...


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Big Sur by Jack Kerouac

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