Jack Kerouac died on Oct. 21, 1969. He wrote "On the Road" in 1957, the year I was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, a city of red brick and gray granite and slush and limited opportunities. He was ...

Jack Kerouac's ex-girlfriend, the author Joyce Johnson, tells PEOPLE that the intense public reaction to Kerouac's 1957 novel On the Road made him feel he "was under a tremendous attack all the time" ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Intrepid explorers will swear by these Jack Kerouac travel quotes. Jack Kerouac is best known for his novel "On the Road," a work ...

What a difference a few decades make. I read with considerable interest the Library of America’s announcement of their publication of the second volume of Jack Kerouac’s oeuvre in March 2015, one that ...

Unpublished in North America for nearly 70 years, Kerouac’s first novel, written when he was 21, offers a tantalizing glimpse of the themes and characters that were to become his obsessions. During ...

NEW YORK (AP) — In the spring of 1951, the muse landed so hard in the caffeinated mind of Jack Kerouac that within three weeks he had hurried out a full-length, single-spaced manuscript — a draft for ...

The author of On the Road died on October 21, 1969, but his rhythm, freedom and restlessness continue to live on in American ...

Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac, who died 45 years ago today at the age of 47, remains an intriguing figure in popular culture. For example, he's been the subject of -- or a peripheral character ...

LOWELL, Massachusetts­ — Jack Kerouac, the man who unwillingly named a generational sensibility and wrote an American classic, died on Tuesday, October 21. He was buried here on Friday, October 24, ...

I drew a picture for the first time in about three years. Previously, I painted energetically using oil paints, charcoal, and ...

I have a distinct memory of flipping through the pages of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road (1957) when I was around 16 years old. I was on the metro in Paris. I had heard about Kerouac from my sister and ...

Kerouac's 'On The Road' manuscript, the extraordinary 37m-long scroll he would unfurl before startled publishers, sits on display at the American Writers Museum in Chicago. Photo: AP In the spring of ...