Jack Kerouac (1922–1969)

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1. Jack Kerouac

   Author of On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Desolation Angels

2. William S. Burroughs

   Author of Naked Lunch, Nova Express, The Adding Machine: Selected Essays

3. Allen Ginsberg

   Author of Howl and Other Poems, Collected Poems 1947-1980, Deliberate Prose: Selected Essays 1952-1995
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4. J. D. Salinger

   Author of Franny and Zooey, Nine Stories (U.S.), Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
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5. Hunter S. Thompson

   Author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72

6. Kurt Vonnegut

   Author of Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions
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7. Henry Miller

   Author of Tropic of Cancer, Sexus, Nexus

8. Charles Bukowski

   Author of post office: A Novel, Ham on Rye: A Novel, Factotum

9. Albert Camus

   Author of The Stranger, The Plague, The Fall
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10. Ken Kesey

    Author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Sometimes a Great Notion, Sailor Song
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11. F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Author of The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

12. James Joyce

    Author of Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners
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13. Ernest Hemingway

    Author of The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, A Moveable Feast
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14. Hermann Hesse

    Author of Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, The Journey to the East
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15. Thomas Pynchon

    Author of The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, V.

16. Tom Wolfe

    Author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby

17. Joseph Heller

    Author of Catch-22
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18. Vladimir Nabokov

    Author of Lolita, Mary, Nabokov's Dozen

19. William Faulkner

    Author of The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, The Portable Faulkner
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20. Sylvia Plath

    Author of The Bell Jar, Ariel, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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