Jack Kerouac, author portrait

Jack Kerouac

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.
On the Road
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg
Big Sur
Wake Up
On the Road: the Original Scroll
On the Road: 50th Anniversary Edition
The Portable Jack Kerouac
The Dharma Bums
Windblown World
Book of Sketches
Book of Haikus
On the Road
Door Wide Open
Atop an Underwood
Kerouac: Selected Letters
Some of the Dharma
On the Road
Book of Blues
Desolation Angels
Vanity of Duluoz
Visions of Cody
Maggie Cassidy
Big Sur
Tristessa
Visions of Gerard
The Dharma Bums

Books

On the Road
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg
Big Sur
Wake Up
On the Road: the Original Scroll
On the Road: 50th Anniversary Edition
The Portable Jack Kerouac
The Dharma Bums
Windblown World
Book of Sketches
Book of Haikus
On the Road
Door Wide Open
Atop an Underwood
Kerouac: Selected Letters
Some of the Dharma
On the Road
Book of Blues
Desolation Angels
Vanity of Duluoz
Visions of Cody
Maggie Cassidy
Big Sur
Tristessa
Visions of Gerard
The Dharma Bums

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