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Jack Kerouac

12 March 1922 - 21 October 1969

Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian ancestry.

He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel. He became an underground celebrity and, with other beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic toward some of its politically radical elements.

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  • Cover of: Le Vagabond solitaire

    First published in 1980 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters

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  • Cover of: The Missouri Review: Living On The Fringe (The Jack Kerouac Letters, XVII Number 3)

    First published in 1994 1 edition in 1 language
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    First published in 1967 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Someday We'll Build Cabins: The Letters of Jack Kerouac, Jacques Beckwith , and Lois Sorrells Beckwith

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Subjects
Beat generation, Beats (Persons), Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), American literature, Poetry, Kerouac, jack, 1922-1969, American Authors, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Beats (persons), Biography, Correspondence, Beat Generation, Beatniks, Fiction in English, General, Literary collections, Romans, nouvelles, Authors, correspondence, Buddhism, Fiction, general, Literature, American Haiku, Authors, Authors, biography
Places
United States, France, Mexico, New England, New York, Big Sur, California, England, India, Lowell, MA, Massachusetts, Mexico City, Morocco, New York (State), Paris (France), San Francisco, San Francisco (Calif.), Sanfransico, mei guo
People
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), Alene Lee, Budda (ca 560-480 a.C), Budda (ca 560-ca 480 a.C), Budda (ok. 560-480 p.n.e), Carolyn Cassady, Gautama Buddha, Gore Vidal, Hugo Weber (1918-1971), Jack, 1922-1969 Kerouac, Joyce Johnson (1935-), Lew Welch, Neal Casady, Neal Cassady, Neal Cassidy, Robert Frank, William Burroughs
Time
20th century, 20e siècle, 1938-1939, 1945-, 1950, 1950s USA, 1952-1960, 1953, 1959, 20th Century, xian dai

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  • Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
  • Kerouac
  • John Kerouac
  • KEROUAC
  • Jack KEROUAC
  • JACK KEROUAC

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March 12, 2024 Edited by kathrinpassig merge authors
January 8, 2023 Edited by sunrisepianomonkey Shortened bio to remove repeated info and make it more than a WP copy; added IDs; added links
January 6, 2023 Edited by bitnapper merge authors
July 1, 2022 Edited by dcapillae remove wrong alternative names
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import