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    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
    On the Road
    (Penguin Orange Collection)
    Jack Kerouac
    9780143129509
    $19.00 US
    Paperback
    Oct 18, 2016
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    On the Road: the Original Scroll
    On the Road: the Original Scroll
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Jack Kerouac
    9780143105466
    $19.00 US
    Paperback
    Aug 26, 2008
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    On the Road
    On the Road
    Jack Kerouac
    9780142437254
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Dec 31, 2002
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

    Books

    On the Road
    On the Road
    (Penguin Orange Collection)
    Jack Kerouac
    9780143129509
    $19.00 US
    Paperback
    Oct 18, 2016
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    On the Road: the Original Scroll
    On the Road: the Original Scroll
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Jack Kerouac
    9780143105466
    $19.00 US
    Paperback
    Aug 26, 2008
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    On the Road
    On the Road
    Jack Kerouac
    9780142437254
    $18.00 US
    Paperback
    Dec 31, 2002
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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