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Jack Kerouac

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Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Jack Kerouac ( 1922-03-12 - 1969-10-21 ), born Jean-Louis Lebris Kerouac, was an American novelist, poet and artist. See also Maggie Cassidy , On the Road and The Dharma Bums Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 The Town and the City (1950) 1.2 On the Road (1957)...


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....
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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...
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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...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Jack Kerouac Summary
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Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) (Born Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac) American novelist, poet, essayist, and nonfiction writer. Kerouac is regarded as the one of the key figures of the Beat movement. He brought the term “Beat,” meaning both...
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Jack Kerouac Information
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Jack Kerouac (pronounced /ˈkɛrəwæk/) (March 12 1922 – October 21 1969) was an American novelist, writer, poet, and artist. Along with William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, he is amongst the best known of the writers (and friends) known as...


News and Journals
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The Washington Post
A Monument to Jack Kerouac?
01/08/1987: 998 words, approx. 3 pages
When I read the other day that the City Council of Lowell, Mass., had just decided to build a new park dedicated to the memory of Jack Kerouac, my first reaction was amazement. Though born in Lowell, Kerouac was not just a local...
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The Boston Globe
A Week Of Jack Kerouac In Lowell
06/20/1988: 829 words, approx. 3 pages
The city of Lowell is celebrating one of its most famous sons this week -- Jack Kerouac, the chronicler of the Beat Generation in 20 books of narrative prose, poems and essays, who was born in a Lowell double-decker in 1922 and buried in...
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AP News
Red Sox affiliate buys famous first base
6/5/2007: 269 words, approx. 1 pages
The Lowell Spinners don't have a first baseman. They do, however, have a fairly famous first base.The Class A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox has bought on the memorabilia market _ and plans to use for the upcoming New York-Penn League season _ the...
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AP News
Colts say Caldwell in if Dungy retires
1/18/2008: 257 words, approx. 1 pages
Assistant head coach Jim Caldwell would replace Tony Dungy if the Indianapolis Colts coach retires, team owner Jim Irsay said Thursday night.Irsay hopes Dungy will return and expects to speak to him this weekend, the owner said at a party celebrating an exhibition of the...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Jonathan Paul Eburne
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In the following essay, Eburne analyzes the wider social implications of the Beat generation by examining subversiveness in The Subterraneans and William S. Burroughs's The Naked Lunch.
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Critical Essay by Nancy McCampbell Grace
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In the following essay, Grace analyzes the significance of race in Kerouac's stories about romantic relationships.
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Critical Essay by Regina Weinreich
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In the following essay, Weinreich examines Desolation Angels as the culmination of Kerouac's religious and philosophical thinking just before the publication of On the Road.
 
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Shows How Kerouac Explores and Challenges the Promise of "The American Dream"
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Essay shows how Jack Kerouac explains and challenges the idea of "The American Dream."


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