Jack Kerouac (1922–1969)
Author of On the Road
About the Author
Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. His first novel, The Town and the City, was published in 1950. He considered all of his "true story novels," including On the Road, to be chapters of "one vast book," his autobiographical Legend of Duluoz. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, show more in 1969 at the age of forty-seven. (Publisher Provided) show less
Image credit: Tom Palumbo
Series
Works by Jack Kerouac
The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished & Newly Translated Writings (The Library of America) (2016) 93 copies
Jack Kerouac: Visions of Cody, Visions of Gerard, Big Sur: (Library of America #262) (2015) 78 copies
The Poetry of Jack Kerouac: Scattered Poems, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity, and Old Angel Midnight (2017) 10 copies
The Great Western Bus Ride 3 copies
Visions Of Gerard And Tristessa 3 copies
I sotterranei. Prefazione di Henry Miller. Prefazione di Henry Miller. Introduzione di Fernanda Pivano. (1989) 2 copies
Two Christmas Stories 2 copies
Two Stories from Jack Kerouac 2 copies
The Mexican Girl 2 copies
Cenas de Nova York e Outras Viagens 2 copies
The Northport Haikus 2 copies
Kerouac 2 copies
Verzen, schetsen, haiku's & blues 2 copies
I Meridiani - Big Sur 1 copy
Sur la route 1 copy
il dottor sax 1 copy
Sur les origines d'une génération - Dernier mot / On the Origins of a Generation - The Last Word (2022) 1 copy
El ángel subterraneo 1 copy
Poeti del mondo 1 copy
NE UDHE 1 copy
I Meridiani - I sotterranei 1 copy
I Meridiani - Sulla strada 1 copy
LOS VAGABUNDOS DEL DHARMA 1 copy
I Meridiani - Scritti vari 1 copy
Biografía de una generación 1 copy
Nouvelles Américaines 1 copy
Victor-Lévy Beaulieu 1 copy
Baseball 1 copy
Engel der Trübsal 1 copy
Madrugada (Issue Number One) 1 copy
Study guide On the road by Jack Kerouac (in-depth literary analysis and complete summary) (2020) 1 copy
Poesie 1 copy
Céline and Other Tales 1 copy
letters of jack kerouac 1 copy
Jack Kerouac, 1922-1969 1 copy
A Pun for Al Gelpi 1 copy
4 Haikus 1 copy
Refrain 1 copy
Oceanul e fratele meu: antologie de texte literare şi corespondenţă Jack Kerouac - Sebastian Sampas (2012) 1 copy
Trên đường 1 copy
Pearson English Reader Level 3: The Young King and Other Stories Book and Multi-ROM with MP3 Pack (2015) 1 copy
Home At Christmas 1 copy
Une Veille De Noel 1 copy
The Ghost of the Susquehanna 1 copy
A Book of Cats & Haikus 1 copy
Take Care of My Ghost, Ghost 1 copy
Notebook & Journal Entries 1 copy
Les clochards célestes 1 copy
Associated Works
The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats: The Beat Generation and American Culture (1999) — Contributor — 167 copies
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Contributor — 148 copies
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Contributor — 146 copies
Still Wild: Short Fiction of the American West 1950 to the Present (2000) — Contributor — 134 copies
The Mammoth Book of Tales from the Road: Tales of Life on the Move (Mammoth Books) (2003) — Contributor — 50 copies
Field of Fantasies: Baseball Stories of the Strange and Supernatural (2014) — Contributor — 44 copies
A New Directions reader — Contributor — 11 copies
West Coast Fiction: Modern Writing from California, Oregon, and Washington (1979) — Contributor — 7 copies
Kerouac Quarterly, V. 2, No. 1 — Contributor — 1 copy
Beatitude 16 — Contributor — 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Kerouac, Jack
- Legal name
- de Kérouac, Jean-Louis Lebris
- Other names
- Kerouac, Jean-Louis
Kerouac, John
Kirouac, Jean Louis - Birthdate
- 1922-03-12
- Date of death
- 1969-10-21
- Burial location
- Edson Cemetery, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
- Place of death
- St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
- Cause of death
- esophageal hemorrhage
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA
Orlando, Florida, USA - Education
- Columbia University
Horace Mann School - Occupations
- novelist
poet
Merchant Mariner - Relationships
- Kerouac, Jan (daughter)
Johnson, Joyce (partner)
Kerouac-Parker, Edie (1st wife)
Kerouac, Joan (2nd wife) - Organizations
- United States Navy Reserves
United States Merchant Marine (WWII)
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Discussions
Robert Bolano and Jack Kerouac in Books Compared (July 2009)
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Statistics
- Works
- 208
- Also by
- 39
- Members
- 61,946
- Popularity
- #230
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 752
- ISBNs
- 1,088
- Languages
- 33
- Favorited
- 330
At the early stages, each time I picked it up (perhaps it was the text itself) I felt I should accelerate and skim a bit. Instead, I became absorbed and slowed down. I became more and more absorbed in its dimensions as the narrative progressed until I felt that once they had crossed the border into Mexico, the book became sublime. I had the sense that this was now a one-way journey out of country - out of time - out of youth.
Yesterday a friend posted a collection of photos taken by today's generation who are jumping trains and sleeping rough across the USA. After Peter Kaldheim's story set in the 1970s. Seems that every 50 years a very similar story is being retold about the underbelly of of the USA and its inhabitants. Similar in some respects to Steinbeck's [b:Travels with Charlie in Search of America|33617956|Travels with Charlie in Search of America|John Steinbeck|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/50x75-a91bf249278a81aabab721ef782c4a74.png|1024827]. But none so artful and profound as On the Road.
For me the really memorable parts are the descriptions of music and jazz players, being trapped in an all-night cinema, the Mexican brothel and the drive to Chicago.
This is great literature. The structure fits the narrative and the landscape and its depths of imagery are so complex as to warrant further reading.
Such a book certainly makes me wonder why Australia has no equivalent narrative: the journey around the centre and what that means for our national psyche.
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