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[[Jack Kerouac]] (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary [[Iconoclasm|iconoclast]] and, alongside [[William S. Burroughs]] and [[Allen Ginsberg]], a pioneer of the [[Beat Generation]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PNRHQ96szrsC&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=kerouac+iconoclast+literary&source=bl&ots=vAaUkb3MRu&sig=jTp_7Y-Ty25vUwdoXe-ChfGNZ2U&hl=en&ei=g7wbS57gNpT0sQOjkYX6Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CCgQ6AEwCTgo#v=onepage&q=&f=false |title=The view from On the road: the rhetorical vision of Jack Kerouac|last=Swartz|first=Omar|publisher=Southern Illinois University Press|year=1999 |accessdate=2010-01-29|page=4|isbn=978-0-8093-2384-5}}</ref> 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.
[[Jack Kerouac]] (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary [[Iconoclasm|iconoclast]] and, alongside [[William S. Burroughs]] and [[Allen Ginsberg]], a pioneer of the [[Beat Generation]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PNRHQ96szrsC&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=kerouac+iconoclast+literary&source=bl&ots=vAaUkb3MRu&sig=jTp_7Y-Ty25vUwdoXe-ChfGNZ2U&hl=en&ei=g7wbS57gNpT0sQOjkYX6Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CCgQ6AEwCTgo#v=onepage&q=&f=false |title=The view from On the road: the rhetorical vision of Jack Kerouac|last=Swartz|first=Omar|publisher=Southern Illinois University Press|year=1999 |accessdate=2010-01-29|page=4|isbn=978-0-8093-2384-5}}</ref> 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.


==Fiction==<ref>Most information from {{cite book|url=https://www.thirdmindbooks.com/pages/books/1194/ann-charters-jack-kerouac/jack-kerouac-a-bibliography|title=Jack Kerouac: A Bibliography|last=Charters|first=Ann|publisher=New York, NY: The Phoenix Bookshop|year=1975 |accessdate=2018-11-30|isbn=0916228061}}</ref>
==Fiction<ref>Most information from {{cite book|url=https://www.thirdmindbooks.com/pages/books/1194/ann-charters-jack-kerouac/jack-kerouac-a-bibliography|title=Jack Kerouac: A Bibliography|last=Charters|first=Ann|publisher=New York, NY: The Phoenix Bookshop|year=1975 |accessdate=2018-11-30|isbn=0916228061}}</ref>==
*''[[The Town and the City]]'' (1950; written 1946–1949)
*''[[The Town and the City]]'' (1950; written 1946–1949)
*''[[On the Road]]'' (1957; written 1947–1951)
*''[[On the Road]]'' (1957; written 1947–1951)

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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 pioneer of the Beat Generation.[1] 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.

Fiction[2]

Posthumous fiction

Poetry

  • Mexico City Blues (1955; published 1959)
  • The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (1956; published 1960) (meditations, koans, poems)
  • Scattered Poems (1945–1968; published 1971)
  • Book of Sketches (1952–1957)
  • Old Angel Midnight (1956; published 1973)
  • Trip Trap: Haiku on the Road from SF to NY (1959; published 1973) (with Albert Saijo and Lew Welch)
  • Heaven and Other Poems (1957–1962; published 1977)
  • San Francisco Blues (1954; published 1991)
  • Pomes All Sizes (compiled 1960; published 1992)
  • Book of Blues (1954–1961)
  • Book of Haikus (published 2003)
  • Collected Poems (published 2012, volume 231 in Library of America) ISBN 9781598531947
  • Old Angel Midnight (City Lights Publishers, 2016 edition)

Other work and non-fiction

Letters, journals, interviews

Discography

Filmography

Year Title Notes
1959 Pull My Daisy Short film.

References

  1. ^ Swartz, Omar (1999). The view from On the road: the rhetorical vision of Jack Kerouac. Southern Illinois University Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-8093-2384-5. Retrieved 2010-01-29.
  2. ^ Most information from Charters, Ann (1975). Jack Kerouac: A Bibliography. New York, NY: The Phoenix Bookshop. ISBN 0916228061. Retrieved 2018-11-30.
  3. ^ Freeman, John. "Fiction Review: Road Show". Newcity Chicago. Newcity. Archived from the original on March 7, 2006. Retrieved February 15, 2015.