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. Thematically, his work covers topics such as his Catholic spirituality, jazz, travel, promiscuity, life in New York City, Buddhism, drugs, and poverty. Kerouac is recognized for his style of spontaneous prose.
It made him a beat icon, and he went on to publish 12 more novels and numerous poetry volumes. His first published book was The Town and the City (1950), and he achieved widespread fame and notoriety with his second, On the Road, in 1957. He "learned English at age six and spoke with a marked accent into his late teens." During World War II, he served in the United States Merchant Marine he completed his first novel at the time, which was published more than 40 years after his death. Of French-Canadian ancestry, Kerouac was raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation. æ k/ Ma– October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. OL19158956W Page_number_confidence 91.54 Pages 274 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20211016172311 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 326 Scandate 20211013052325 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780791075814 Tts_version 4.Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac ( / ˈ k ɛr u. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:06:15 Associated-names Bloom, Harold Boxid IA40260209 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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