It is considered a defining work of the postwar beat and counterculture generations with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz poetry and drug use.

Jack kerouac background. He didn t start learning english until he was six years old and didn t get the hang of it until he was a teenager. Petersburg florida american novelist poet and leader of the beat movement whose most famous book on the road 1957 had broad cultural influence before it was recognized for its literary merits. Jack kerouac original name jean louis lebris de kerouac born march 12 1922 lowell massachusetts u s died october 21 1969 st. On the road captured the spirit of its time as no other work of the 20th century had since f.

On the road is a 1957 novel by american writer jack kerouac based on the travels of kerouac and his friends across the united states. Jack kerouac movement whose most famous book on the road 1957 had broad cultural influence before it was recognized for its literary merits. Jack kerouac in 1959 kerouac s style has been called a gesture of working class solidarity but if you come from a place like lowell massachusetts a down and out burg where unemployment and heavy drinking prevailed like kerouac you know that it goes beyond an an aesthetic it s embedded from birth. That s not the jack.

A thriving mill town in the mid 19th century lowell had become by the time of kerouac s birth a. Jack kerouac was born jean louis lebris de kerouac on march 12 1922 in lowell massachusetts. Kerouac s frenetic prose conveyed the energy of a postwar generation and the influence of jazz. Scott fitzgerald s the great gatsby 1925.

Jean louis lebris de kérouac ˈkɛruæk march 12 1922 october 21 1969 often known as jack kerouac was an american novelist of french canadian ancestry who alongside william s. Arts culture jack kerouac and lucien carr. Ironically he would give up his parents native tongue for most of his life after that. The first time jack kerouac s name appeared in the press was august 17 1944 when he and william burroughs were arrested as material witnesses to murder.

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