Jack Kerouac (Author)
Jack Kerouacwas born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922. In 1947,
enthused by bebop, the rebel attitude of his friend Neal Cassidy,
and the throng of hobos, drug addicts and hustlers he encountered
in New York, he decided to discover America and hitchhhike across
the country. His writing was openly autobiographical and he
developed a style he referred to as 'spontaneous prose' which he
used to record the experiences of the Beat Generation. Among his
many novels are On the Road, Maggie Cassidy, The Subterraneans, The
Dharma Bums and Big Sur. He died in 1969.
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