Jack Kerouac was a novelist who had broken all literary conventions and traditions. He was popularly known literary iconoclast and is placed beside literary stalwarts like William S. …

Jan 31, 2025 · Jack Kerouac was an influential American novelist and a key figure of the Beat Generation, best known for his groundbreaking work On the Road, published in 1957.

May 29, 2018 · J ack Kerouac, an American writer, is best known for On the Road, (1957) which describes his travels into the American West. He is known as the father of the Beat …

Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet, best known for his 1957 novel "On the Road." He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922, and grew up in a French-Canadian working …

Jack Kerouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a …

Jack Kerouac, an American novelist and poet, pioneered the rebellious Beat Generation movement in the mid-20th century. His seminal work, "On the Road" (1957), achieved cultural …

Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac [1] (/ ˈ k ɛr u. æ k /; [2] March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet [3] who, alongside William S. Burroughs …

He became famous as Jack Kerouac, author of On the Road (1957), the novel that is considered to be a quintessential statement of the 1950s literary movement known as the Beat …

Jul 23, 2014 · Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet. He was born in 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts to a Catholic French-Canadian family. French was his first language, and his …

Feb 24, 2021 · With the publication in 1957 of his novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac found himself cast unwillingly as leader of a movement and spokesman for his generation. His status as a …

Kerouac is perhaps best known for his association with the Beat Generation, a literary movement that emerged in the 1950s as a response to the conformity and consumerism of post-war …

Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet, best known for his role as a central figure in the Beat Generation. His most famous work, 'On the Road,' embodies the spirit of freedom, …

Jack Kerouac, orig. Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac, (born March 12, 1922, Lowell, Mass., U.S.—died Oct. 21, 1969, St. Petersburg, Fla.), U.S. poet and novelist.

Mar 12, 2021 · Jack Kerouac. In 1957, Viking Press published On the Road, a fictionalized account of Kerouac’s numerous cross-country trips. Kerouac famously drafted the book in a …