Jack Kerouac
12 March 1922 – 21 October 1969
209 works in the book catalog catalog
Biography
Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian ancestry.
He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel. 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.
Also published as: Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac, Kerouac, John Kerouac, KEROUAC, Jack KEROUAC, JACK KEROUAC
Most-read books
On The Road
3.5 · 1957 · 684 want to read
The Dharma Bums
3.8 · 1950 · 54 want to read
Big Sur
4.3 · 1962 · 39 want to read
Lonesome Traveler
3.8 · 1960 · 46 want to read
Desolation angels
3.7 · 1960 · 44 want to read
Les Souterrains
4 · 1958 · 42 want to read
The town and the city
3.7 · 1950 · 41 want to read
Visions of Cody
2.8 · 1972 · 25 want to read
And the hippos were boiled in their tanks
3 · 2008 · 15 want to read
Tristessa
4 · 1960 · 13 want to read
Visions of Gerard
3 · 1963 · 14 want to read
Maggie Cassidy
3.3 · 1959 · 12 want to read
Vanity of Duluoz
3.7 · 1968 · 12 want to read
Satori in Paris
3 · 1966 · 11 want to read
Scattered poems
2 · 1971 · 11 want to read
Book of Dreams
4 · 1961 · 9 want to read
The portable Jack Kerouac
5 · 1995 · 8 want to read
The Sea is My Brother
4 · 2011 · 8 want to read
Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha
1.5 · 2008 · 6 want to read
Words of Ages
2000 · 9 want to read
Windblown world
2004 · 7 want to read
Book of Haikus
3 · 2003 · 7 want to read
Beat Generation
4 · 2005 · 6 want to read
Atop an Underwood
1999 · 7 want to read