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Jack Kerouac

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KEROUAC, JACK 1922-1969

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Jack Kerouac was a writer who earned his place in cultural history because of timing more than literary merit. In his books, most notably On the Road (1957), he expresses the spirit of the 1950s for an audience aimlessly seeking a suitable mode of expression. Kerouac's depiction of a band of free spirits discovering themselves as they improvised their way across America in what was intended to be a real-life analogue to a ...

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Kerouac, Jack

Jack Kerouac

Born: March 12, 1922 Lowell, Massachusetts Died: October 21, 1969 St. Petersburg, Florida American writer

J ack Kerouac, an American writer, is best known for On the Road, (1957) which describes his travels into the American West. He is known as the father of the Beat ...

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Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac (John Kerouac) , 1922-69, American novelist, b. Lowell, Mass., studied at Columbia. One of the leaders of the beat generation , a term he is said to have coined, he was the author of the largely autobiographical novel On the Road (1957), widely considered the testament of the ...

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Profile: Forty-fifth anniversary of Jack Kerouac's "On The Road"
; ...Profile: 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...September of 1957, about the only thing Jack Kerouac had to show for On The Road was... Read more
Jack Kerouac comes home to Lowell. (biographical play performed in Lowell, Massachussetts)
; Beat poet Jack Kerouac's appeal is clearly...from Big Sur--a later Kerouac novel which finds the 40-year-old Jack suffering from delirium...told mainly through Jack's monologues and his...Mouse (a composite of Kerouac's high school buddies... Read more
Road Trips; On the 50th anniversary of "On the Road," a slew of books celebrates Jack Kerouac, his American classic and the scroll that began it all.
; ...THE ROAD The Original Scroll By Jack Kerouac Viking. 408 pp. $25.95 ROAD NOVELS 1957-1960 By Jack Kerouac Library of America. 864 pp. $35 ON THE ROAD By Jack Kerouac Viking. 307 pp. $24.95 DESOLATE... Read more
THE BEAT GOES ON NEARLY 20 YEARS AFTER JACK KEROUAC'S DEATH, SCHOLARS, VOYEURS, TOURISTS, AND DISCIPLES STILL FLOCK TO LOWELL SEARCHING FOR HIS SOUL
; Jack Kerouac wanted me to leave him alone. I know...copy of On the Road in his hip pocket. "Jack Kerouac?" I asked. "King of the Beats," he said...documentaries, the poets reading at the Jack Kerouac Literary Series, the group that calls... Read more
Jack Kerouac Bio
; ...EDITION. I'm Renee Montagne. Writer Jack Kerouac achieved the rarest of things...saxophone in 1958. (BEGIN AUDIO CLIP) JACK KEROUAC, WRITER: Well, here I am, 2 p.m...ssady's wife Carolyn, in the dust. But Jack Kerouac had hundreds of girlfriends and... Read more
Jack Kerouac's Famous Scroll, 'On the Road' Again
; ...All 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...and break that. Mr. JOHN SAMPAS (Jack Kerouac's brother-in-law and executor... Read more
ROAD TRIPS: THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO GETTING ON THE ROAD: Where the journey began When Jack Kerouac was born there in 1922, Lowell in Massachusetts was a tough textile town. Bob Doran went to see how it commemorates its most notorious son
; Jack Kerouac was a homebody, among other things. In...anywhere to a writer. For most people, Jack Kerouac means On the Road. But take his writings...Merrimack. Close by is the beautiful Jack Kerouac Commemorative: a tree-flanked square... Read more
AS YOU WERE SAYING . . . Lowell legend, Jack Kerouac no hero to be worshipped.(Editorial)
; Lowell-born writer Jack Kerouac, who died in 1969...poisonous part of Kerouac's life and mind...Barry Miles wrote in Jack Kerouac, King of the Beats...fiery cross burnt, Jack danced up and down...Amburn, the editor of Kerouac's final two novels... Read more
LOWELL PARK IS DEDICATED TO MEMORY OF JACK KEROUAC
; LOWELL - Jack Kerouac's voice yesterday...park," said Janet Kerouac, 36, who met her...I probably see Jack Kerouac different than most." "To me, I see Jack as a friend, lover...Henri Cru, one of Kerouac's best friends and...the Road." "When Jack and I were sitting... Read more
JAZZ-INFUSED STORY OF JACK KEROUAC HAS MATURED ALONG WITH ITS CREATOR.(What's Happening)
; ...Beat Generation writer and icon Jack Kerouac. At the time, the author of...years interpreting the era in ``Kerouac: The Essence of Jack,'' the one man and jazz band...show. Over the 17-year run of ``Jack,'' Kerouac's life has transformed Balestri... Read more

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