Jack Kerouac: 1957-1969
by Jack Kerouac
The second in a two-volume life-in-letters offers an illuminating portrait of the latter years in the life of the acclaimed author, from his rise to fame with the publication of On the Road in 1957, through a period of growing alcoholism and disillusionment, to his death in 1969 at age forty-seven.
KEROUAC, JACK, 1922-1969AUTHORS_CORRESPONDENCEBEATS (PERSONS)AUTHORS_BIOGRAPHY
RELEASED1995
PUBLISHERViking
LENGTH544
LANGUAGEEN
Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian ancestry. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel. He became an underground celebrity and, with other beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic toward some of its politically radical elements.
Jack Kerouac: 1957-1969
by Jack Kerouac
The second in a two-volume life-in-letters offers an illuminating portrait of the latter years in the life of the acclaimed author, from his rise to fame with the publication of On the Road in 1957, through a period of growing alcoholism and disillusionment, to his death in 1969 at age forty-seven.
KEROUAC, JACK, 1922-1969AUTHORS_CORRESPONDENCEBEATS (PERSONS)AUTHORS_BIOGRAPHY
RELEASED1995
PUBLISHERViking
LENGTH544
LANGUAGEEN
Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian ancestry. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel. He became an underground celebrity and, with other beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic toward some of its politically radical elements.
