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....
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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 note...
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Jack Kerouac, regarded in modern American fiction as the authentic voice of the "beat generation," thought of himself as a storyteller in the innovative literary tradition of Proust and Joyce, creatin...
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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 h...
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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 th...
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Biography EssayJack Kerouac, regarded in modern American fiction as the authentic voice of the "beat genera- don," thought of himself as a storyteller in the innovative literary tradition of Proust an...
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In part 1, chapter 2, Kerouac presents the idea of the American dream through descriptions of himself.
"I left with my canvas bag in which a few fundamental things were packed and too...
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Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
