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Jack Kerouac


Born
in Lowell, Massachusetts, The United States
March 12, 1922

Died
October 21, 1969

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Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
Of French-Canadian ancestry, Kerouac was raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts. He "learned English at age six and spoke with a marked accent into his late teens." During World War II, he served in the United States Merchant Marine; he completed his first novel at the time, which was published more than 40 years after his death. His first published book was The Town and the City (1950), and he achieved widespread fame and notoriety with his second, On the Road, in 1957. It made him a beat icon, and he went on to publish 12 more novels and num
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On the Road

3.61 avg rating — 432,990 ratings — published 1957 — 624 editions
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Big Sur

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The Subterraneans

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Desolation Angels

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Lonesome Traveler

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Quotes by Jack Kerouac  (?)
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“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
Jack Kerouac

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August 2024 New School Classic Poll

 
  62 votes, 26.6%

On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 1957, 293 pages
 
  49 votes, 21.0%

 
  36 votes, 15.5%

 
  31 votes, 13.3%

The Door by Magda Szabó, 1987, 262 pages
 
  29 votes, 12.4%

 
  16 votes, 6.9%

The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf, 1928, 395 pages
 
  10 votes, 4.3%

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