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Jack Kerouac


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

Died
October 21, 1969

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Genre
Fiction, Poetry, Travel

Influences
Neal Cassady, Thomas Wolfe, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Jean Genet, Henry ...more


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 ...more

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Average rating: 3.7 · 725,812 ratings · 36,519 reviews · 462 distinct works â€� Similar authors
On the Road
3.61 avg rating — 436,032 ratings — published 1957 — 641 editions
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The Dharma Bums
3.93 avg rating — 99,357 ratings — published 1958 — 233 editions
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Big Sur
3.84 avg rating — 36,974 ratings — published 1962 — 177 editions
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The Subterraneans
3.65 avg rating — 16,454 ratings — published 1958 — 147 editions
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On the Road: The Original S...
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4.11 avg rating — 13,305 ratings — published 1957 — 3 editions
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Desolation Angels
3.93 avg rating — 12,063 ratings — published 1958 — 107 editions
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Lonesome Traveler
3.75 avg rating — 7,947 ratings — published 1960 — 25 editions
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Tristessa
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3.65 avg rating — 6,683 ratings — published 1960 — 80 editions
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Maggie Cassidy
3.59 avg rating — 5,363 ratings — published 1959 — 81 editions
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Series by Jack Kerouac

Selected Letters, 1940-1956 Selected Letters, 1957-1969
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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
tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad
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“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
tags: dharma, simplicity, writing
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“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac
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March 2015 New School Classic Poll

Which book should we choose for our March 2015 New School group read?

1925, Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, 194 pages
 
  11 votes, 23.4%

 
  7 votes, 14.9%

1959, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, 311 pages
 
  4 votes, 8.5%

 
  4 votes, 8.5%

 
  4 votes, 8.5%

1938, The Long Valley by John Steinbeck, 142 pages
 
  3 votes, 6.4%

1959, A Separate Peace by John Knowles, 204 pages
 
  3 votes, 6.4%

1944, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, 351 pages
 
  2 votes, 4.3%

1957, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 304 pages
 
  2 votes, 4.3%

1996, Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, 432 pages
 
  2 votes, 4.3%

1921, The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer, 274 pages
 
  2 votes, 4.3%

1981, Loitering With Intent by Muriel Spark, 217 pages
 
  1 vote, 2.1%

1958, Night by Elie Wiesel, 115 pages
 
  1 vote, 2.1%

1920, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, 305 pages
 
  1 vote, 2.1%

1902, The Four Feathers by A.E.W. Mason, 284 pages
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

1905, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, 351 pages
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

47 total votes
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