Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. His first novel, The Town and the City, appeared in 1950, but it was On the Road, published in 1957 and memorializing his adventures with Neal Cassady, that epitomized to the world what became known as the “Beat generation” and made Kerouac one of the most best-known writers of his time. Publication of many other books followed, among them The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, and Big Sur. Kerouac considered all of his autobiographical fiction to be part of “one vast book,” The Duluoz Legend. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969, at the age of forty-seven.
? A dazzling piece of writing for all of its rough edges, stripped
of affectations that in the novel can sometimes verge on bathos . .
. It seems much more immediate and contemporary.?
?Luc Sante, " New York Times Book Review"
A dazzling piece of writing for all of its rough edges, stripped of
affectations that in the novel can sometimes verge on bathos . . .
It seems much more immediate and contemporary.
Luc Sante, " New York Times Book Review"
a A dazzling piece of writing for all of its rough edges, stripped
of affectations that in the novel can sometimes verge on bathos . .
. It seems much more immediate and contemporary.a
aLuc Sante," New York Times Book Review"
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