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Bookmark or Share- On the Road - WikipediaOn 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.
- Remembering Jack Kerouac - SmithsonianRemembering Jack Kerouac. A friend of the author of “On the Road,” published 50 years ago this month, tells why the novel still matters
- Jack Kerouac - WikipediaJean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac [1] (/ ˈ k ɛr u. æ k /; [2] March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet [3] who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation. [4] Of French-Canadian ancestry, [5] [6] Kerouac was raised in a French-speaking home in ...
- Jack Kerouac | The Poetry FoundationKerouac was a highly imaginative child who created a private world of racing stables and sports teams, then wrote his own newspapers to report their performances. Diaries, radio plays, and a novel titled Jack Kerouac Explores the Merrimack were some of his other childhood writing projects. He was an excellent student, and by the time he entered ...
- Jack Kerouac | American Novelist and PoetA searchable database of one of the most expansive Kerouac collections in the world (this project is in part funded by Mass Humanities) The Illustrated On the Road
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