Jack Kerouac attended Columbia on a football scholarship.
Jack Kerouac. On the Road?
Do you mean Jack Kerouac?
I} Tool of choice for Hemingway, Kerouac, Fleming.
Yeah, but for now she's Jack Kerouac.
Kerouac was charged as an accessory,
Kerouac was impressed with Snyder
Admitted influences for Kerouac include Marcel Proust,
I am. Tool of choice for Hemingway, Kerouac, Fleming.
Kerouac's two favorite childhood pastimes were reading and sports.
Kerouac's road trips with Cassady in the late 1940s
before 100 people including Kerouac, up from Mexico City.
Kerouac frequently appeared drunk, and
interviews with him usually turned into arguments.
Jack Kerouac shows a scroll with the text of his book, 1964.
Admitted influences for Kerouac include Marcel Proust, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe.
Carr also knew Kerouac's girlfriend Edie Parker,
through whom Burroughs met Kerouac in 1944.
Kerouac was impressed with Snyder
and they were close for a number of years.
Kerouac was charged as an accessory,
and Burroughs as a material witness, but neither was prosecuted.
The Six Gallery reading informs the second chapter of Kerouac's 1958 novel The Dharma Bums,
Beat Generation writers such as Jack Kerouac and libertine writers such as the Marquis de Sade
In a deathbed promise to Leo, Kerouac pledged to care for his mother,
Gabrielle, affectionately known as Memere.
Kerouac's road trips with Cassady in the late 1940s became the focus of
his second novel, On the Road.
Writer Jack Kerouac was a star ballplayer in high school
and college and even invented his own fantasy baseball game.
Kerouac died of massive stomach bleeding on October 21,
1969, with a pad in his lap and pen in his hand.
Now if you tend to side with Kerouac and think people are born talented,
you have what psychologists call a fixed mindset.
In the first draft of the novel, Kerouac called the character Neal Cassidy,
and just like his real life counterpart, Cassidy was larger-than-life.
With the onset of the Great Depression, the Kerouac family suffered from financial difficulties,
and Kerouacs father turned to alcohol and gambling to cope.
Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, Philip Whalen, Ginsberg and Gary Snyder read on October 7, 1955,
before 100 people including Kerouac, up from Mexico City.
Cassady impressed the group with the free-flowing style of his letters, and Kerouac cited them as a key influence on his spontaneous prose style.