'On the Road' is on a scrol... Jan 20, 2007 02:01:28 Detour alert for hitchhiking hipsters: On the Road is staying on the road to celebrate its 50th anniversary this year.
Jack Kerouac's famous scroll manuscript, which became the Beat Generation's bible after it was published as a novel in 1957, ha...
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Jack Kerouac Biography
While enjoying popular but little critical success during his own lifetime, Kerouac is now considered one of America's most important authors. The spontaneous, confessional prose style inspired other writers, including Tom Robbins, LesterBangs, Richard Brautigan, Hunter S. Thompson, Ken Kesey, Tom Waits and Bob Dylan. Kerouac's best known works are On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur and Visions of Cody.
He divided most of his adult life between roaming the vast American landscape and living with his mother. Faced with a changing country, Kerouac sought to findhis place, eventually rejecting the values of the Fifties. His writing often reflects a desire to break free from society's strictures and to find meaning in life.
This search led him to experiment with drugs and to embark on trips around the world. His books are often credited as the catalyst for the 1960s counterculture. Kerouac died in St. Petersburg, Florida, at the age of forty-seven from an internal hemorrhage most likely caused by his chronic alcoholism.
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