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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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