Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac[1] (/ ˈkɛru.æk /; [2] March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet [3] who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation. [4]

Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), better known as Jack Kerouac, was an American author and poet. He was part of the Beat Generation movement of writers and artists of the 1950s and 1960s, and gave the movement its name.

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.

Apr 7, 2025 · Jack Kerouac (born March 12, 1922, Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S.—died October 21, 1969, St. Petersburg, Florida) was an 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.

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 a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a …

Big Sur is a 1962 novel by Jack Kerouac, written in the fall of 1961 over a ten-day period, with Kerouac typewriting onto a teletype roll. [1] It recounts the events surrounding Kerouac's (here known by the name of his fictional alter-ego Jack Duluoz) three brief sojourns to a cabin in Bixby Canyon, Big Sur, California, owned by Kerouac's friend and Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti; …

Born Jean-Louis Kerouac, Kerouac is the most famous native son of Lowell, Massachusetts. His parents had immigrated as very young children from the Province of Quebec, Canada, and Kerouac spoke a local French Canadian-American dialect before he spoke English.

Apr 2, 2014 · Jack Kerouac was an American writer best known for the novel 'On the Road,' which became an American classic, pioneering the Beat Generation in the 1950s.

Jack Kerouac was an American novelist, writer, poet, and artist born on March 12, 1922, in Lowell, Massachusetts to French Canadian parents, Léo-Alcide Kéroack (1889–1946) and Gabrielle-Ange Lévesque (1895–1973).

Jean-Louis Kérouac ou Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac dit Jack Kerouac (/ʒak ke.ʁwak 1 ; en anglais /dʒ æ k ˈkɛɹu æ k/ 2), né le 12 mars 1922 à Lowell, dans le Massachusetts, et mort le 21 octobre 1969 à St. Petersburg, en Floride, est un écrivain et poète américain.