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Kerouac, Jack
Kerouac, Jack (1922–69) US poet and novelist. Kerouac published his first novel,
The Town and the City, in 1950, but it was
On the Road (1957) that established him as the leading novelist of the
beat movement. Later works include
The Dharma Bums (1958),
Desolation Angels (1965) and the posthumously published
Visions of Cody (1972).
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Jack Kerouac Bio
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 8/28/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...I'm Renee Montagne. Writer Jack Kerouac achieved the rarest of things...in 1958. (BEGIN AUDIO CLIP) JACK KEROUAC, WRITER: Well, here I am, 2...wife Carolyn, in the dust. But Jack Kerouac had hundreds of girlfriends and...
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Jack Kerouac's Famous Scroll, 'On the Road' Again
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 7/5/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Things Considered 07-05-2007 Jack Kerouac's Famous Scroll, 'On the Road...September will mark 50 years since Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" hit bookshelves...break that. Mr. JOHN SAMPAS (Jack Kerouac's brother-in-law and executor...
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Jack Kerouac comes home to Lowell. (biographical play performed in Lowell, Massachussetts)
Magazine article from: American Theatre; 7/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; Beat poet Jack Kerouac's appeal is clearly...Big Sur--a later Kerouac novel which finds the 40-year-old Jack suffering from delirium...told mainly through Jack's monologues and...a composite of Kerouac's high school buddies...
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 "Talk of the Nation (NPR)")
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Jack Kerouac
Transcript from: Talk of the Nation (NPR); 10/27/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...going on. (BEGIN AUDIO CLIP) JACK KEROUAC: A lot of people have asked me...report you well and truly. SUAREZ: Jack Kerouac, recorded in the 1950s. With...personal history. In the case of Jack Kerouac, the trail has not run cold...
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Profile: Forty-fifth anniversary of Jack Kerouac's "On The Road"
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 9/9/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Forty-fifth anniversary of Jack Kerouac's On The Road Host: BOB EDWARDS...years ago, it caused a sensation. Jack Kerouac's style approximated jazz riffs...of 1957, about the only thing Jack Kerouac had to show for On The Road was...
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Voyages et fictions chez Jack Kerouac: une ethnographie de la franco-americanite?
Magazine article from: Anthropologie et Societés; 9/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; RSUM Voyages et fictions chez Jack Kerouac. Une ethnographie de la franco...appuyant sur la dfinition que Jack Kerouac a donne de lui-mme (<...amricain. Mots cls : Bibeau, Jack Kerouac, Canuck, Franco-Amricains...
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A WEEK OF JACK KEROUAC IN LOWELL
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/20/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...most famous sons this week -- Jack Kerouac, the chronicler of the Beat Generation...major work of public art, the Jack Kerouac Commemorative. The commemorative...Pawtucketville Social Club for "A Guide to Jack Kerouac's Lowell" by Brian Foye, a...
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 "The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)")
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Jack Kerouac's long and winding Road trip: the revolutionary 1957 travel memoir On the Road ignited a generation and flung open the floodgates of hip "otherness." At its core is a heartbreaking and oblique queer romance.
Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine); 4/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; Jack Kerouac's famed coming-of-age travel novel...you could call my life on the road," Kerouac wrote. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Paul Maher Jr., author of 2007's Jack Kerouac's American Journey, recounts anecdotes...
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Jack Kerouac's Long and Winding Road Trip
Magazine article from: The Out Traveler; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...heartbreaking and oblique queer romance. Jack Kerouac's famed coming-of-age travel noveland...you could call my life on the road," Kerouac wrote. Paul Maher Jr., author of 2007's Jack Kerouac's American Journey, recounts anecdotes...
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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JAZZ-INFUSED STORY OF JACK KEROUAC HAS MATURED ALONG WITH ITS CREATOR.(What's Happening)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 6/26/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Generation writer and icon Jack Kerouac. At the time, the author...interpreting the era in ``Kerouac: The Essence of Jack,'' the one man and jazz...Over the 17-year run of ``Jack,'' Kerouac's life has transformed Balestri...
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Kerouac, Jack
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
Jack Kerouac Born: March 12, 1922Lowell, MassachusettsDied...Subterranean Kerouac: The Hidden Life of Jack Kerouac. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Clark, Tom. Jack Kerouac. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press...
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Kerouac, Jack 1922-1969
Book article from: American Decades
KEROUAC, JACK 1922-1969 BE at novelist The Right Time Jack Kerouac was a writer who earned his place in...Kerouac refused to pay his son's bail, Jack Kerouac got married so his new wife's grandfather...
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Jack Kerouac
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jack Kerouac (John Kerouac) , 1922-69, American...Bibliography: See A. Charters, ed., Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters, 1940-1956 (1995) and Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters, 1957-1969 (1999...
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Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Kerouac Jean-Louis Lebris de (Jack) Kerouac (1922-1969), American writer...Overflowing. Like his fiction, Jack Kerouac covered a great deal of territory...football coach. When he left school Jack Kerouac took his first road trip, to Washington...
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Elliott, Ramblin’ Jack
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
...manuscript for On the Road by Jack Kerouac himself; passed on Guthrie...x201C;Ramblin’ Jack” was awarded...1975-76; released Kerouac’s Last Dream...of Ramblin’ Jack, directed and produced...
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