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Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (/ ˈ k ɛr u. æ k /; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
May 10, 2024 · Jack Kerouac (born March 12, 1922, Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S.—died October 21, 1969, St. Petersburg, Florida) was an American novelist, poet, and leader of the Beat movement whose most famous book, On the Road (1957), had broad cultural influence before it was recognized for its literary merits.
Apr 2, 2014 · Jack Kerouac was an American writer best known for the novel 'On the Road,' which became an American classic, pioneering the Beat Generation in the 1950s.
Jack Kerouac was an American novelist, writer, poet, and artist born on March 12, 1922, in Lowell, Massachusetts to French Canadian parents, Léo-Alcide Kéroack (1889–1946) and Gabrielle-Ange Lévesque (1895–1973).
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On the Road is a 1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug use.
He became famous as Jack Kerouac, author of On the Road (1957), the novel that is considered to be a quintessential statement of the 1950s literary movement known as the Beat Generation. On the Road describes the growing friendship of two men, Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, and their crisscrossing journeys over the American continent.
BIBLIOGRAPHY. MAJOR WORKS OF FICTION, POETRY, DRAMA, AND CORRESPONDENCE. 1950 The Town and The City | Harcourt Brace. 1957 On the Road | Viking. 1958 Dharma Bums | Viking. 1958 The Subterraneans | Grove Press.
Jean-Louis Kérouac ou Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac dit Jack Kerouac (/ ʒ a k k e. ʁ w a k [1] ; en anglais / d ʒ æ k ˈ k ɛ ɹ u æ k / [2]), né le 12 mars 1922 à Lowell, dans le Massachusetts, et mort le 21 octobre 1969 à St. Petersburg, en Floride, est un écrivain et poète américain.
