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Bookmark or Share- 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 | bioBorn Jean-Louis Kerouac, Kerouac is the most famous native son of Lowell, Massachusetts. His parents had immigrated as very young children from the Province of Quebec, Canada, and Kerouac spoke a local French Canadian-American dialect before he spoke English.
- 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 - Quotes, Books & Poems - BiographyJack 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 - Beat Generation, Novels, Poetry | BritannicaKerouac explained his quest for pure, unadulterated language—the truth of the heart unobstructed by the lying of revision—in two essays published in the Evergreen Review: “ Essentials of Spontaneous Prose” (1958) and “ Belief and Technique for Modern Prose” (1959).
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