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Author Profile
| JACK KEROUAC
More than just a writer, Jack Kerouac is an icon?a symbol of the restless energy, spiritual searching, and raw lust for life of the so-called ?Beat Generation,? a term he coined. Along with friends like Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, Kerouac changed the face of literature in the 1950s, pioneering a jazz-inflected, free-form prose style and exploring heretofore verboten subject matter?sex, drugs, homosexuality?with abandon. In his classic memoir-fiction hybrids like The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and the legendary On the Road, Kerouac chronicled his dissolute demimonde and paved the way for the countercultural explosion of the ?60s. Though his demons eventually consumed him, leading to his death at age 47 in 1969, his legacy?and his searing, intelligent writing?lives on. Titles by This Author |
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