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- Author: Nicosia, Gerald
Date: 1983-00-00
Language: en
Find in a Library: 9392871
Biography of Lowell, Massachusetts native, poet, and author, Jack Kerouac, widely known as a founding participant in the 20th century USA literary culture that came to be called the "Beat Movement," or the "Beat Generation." Kerouac's life from birth…
- Author: Kerouac, Jack
Date: 1995-00-00
Language: en
Find in a Library: 30593133
Collection of selected correspondence between writer Jack Kerouac and family, friends, and other literary figures before 1956. Includes letters to and from William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg; to Kerouac's mother, Gabrielle Kerouac; Neal Cassady;…
- Author: Maher, Paul, Jr.
Date: 2004
Language: English
Find in a Library: 52347737
Recent historical biography of Lowell, Massachusetts writer, Jack Kerouac. Based largely on primary sources. Written by an independent scholar whose childhood and later life was also spent in Lowell.
- Author: Schryer, Stephen
Date: 2011 Spring
Publication: Modern Fiction Studies (MFS)
Volume: 57
Language: English
Essay considering the relationship of middle twentieth-century delinquency and poverty with the explorations of class and culture that take place in the literature of Jack Kerouac. How actors in the Beat Movement, especially Kerouac, interrogated…
- Author: Charters, Ann
Date: 1973
Language: English
Find in a Library: 6065241
Seminal biography of native of Lowell, Massachusetts, Franco American, novelist, and poet, Jack Kerouac. Republished in 1994. Written by Ann Charters, who worked with Kerouac during the final three years of his life. In her writing of this book,…
- Author: Giamo, Benedict
Date: 2000
Language: English
Find in a Library: 42690123
From Southern Illinois University Press: "Giamo’s primary purpose is to chronicle and clarify Kerouac’s various spiritual quests through close examinations of [his] novels. Kerouac began his quest with 'On the Road,' which also is…
- Author: Leland, John
Date: 2007
Language: English
Find in a Library: 83758819
Critical study of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" through the lens of its author and one of its main characters.
From Viking Press: "In 'Why Kerouac Matters,' John Leland embarks on a wry, insightful, and playful discussion of the novel ['On the…