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    Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (/ˈkɛru.æk/; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William...
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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...
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    The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics is a school of Naropa University, located in Boulder, Colorado, United States. It was founded in 1974 by...
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    Kerouac (February 16, 1952 – June 5, 1996) was an American writer and the only child of beat generation author Jack Kerouac and Joan Haverty Kerouac....
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    Ginsberg's Howl (1956), William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch (1959), and Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957) are among the best-known examples of Beat literature...
    69 KB (9,058 words) - 23:35, 10 November 2024
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    37°47′51″N 122°24′24″W / 37.7975°N 122.4067°W / 37.7975; -122.4067 Jack Kerouac Alley, formerly Adler Alley or Adler Place, is a one-way alleyway in...
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    On the Road (category Novels by Jack Kerouac)
    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. It is considered...
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  • Joan Haverty Kerouac (1931– May 15, 1990), born Joan Virginia Haverty, was the second wife of writer Jack Kerouac and the author of an autobiography, Nobody's...
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    Calabria in 2010. In 1987, he was the initiator of the transformation of Jack Kerouac Alley, located at the side of his shop. He presented his idea to the...
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  • various political or social groups. The term "beat" originally was used by Jack Kerouac in 1948 to describe his social circle of friends and fellow writers,...
    36 KB (4,477 words) - 14:53, 5 November 2024
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    of Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road, and served as the model for the character Dean Moriarty in the 1957 version of that book. In many of Kerouac's later...
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    1943, while living in New York City, he befriended Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. Their mutual influence became the foundation of the Beat Generation...
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  • Edie Kerouac-Parker (September 20, 1922 – October 29, 1993) was the author of the memoir You'll Be Okay, about her life with her first husband, Jack Kerouac...
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  • boyfriend, Jack Kerouac, then twenty-two and nearing the end of his short career as a sailor. Carr, in turn, introduced Ginsberg and Kerouac to one another...
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  • Beat Generation (Lucien Carr, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac), their interactions, and Carr's killing of his long-time friend David...
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    Jack Kerouac House is a historic house located in Orlando, Florida. Built as a rectangular, one-story, front-gable, Frame Vernacular house, it was the...
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    Joyce Johnson (author) (category Jack Kerouac)
    apartment of Joan Vollmer Adams where William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac lived from 1944 to 1946. Johnson was brought up in an unconventional...
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  • In My Tribe (redirect from Hey Jack Kerouac)
    Side one "What's the Matter Here?" (Robert Buck, Merchant) – 4:51 "Hey Jack Kerouac" (Buck, Merchant) – 3:26 "Like the Weather" – 3:56 "Cherry Tree" (Buck...
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    1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism...
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  • My Life at the Jack Kerouac School is Sam Kashner's autobiographical account of his experience as the first student at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied...
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