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Jack Kerouac

Born

in Lowell, Massachusetts, The United States

March 12, 1922

Died

October 21, 1969

Website

https://jackkerouac.com/

Genre

Fiction, Poetry, Travel

Influences

Neal Cassady, Thomas Wolfe, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Jean Genet, Henry ...more

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Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
Of French-Canadian ancestry, Kerouac was raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts. 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. 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. It made him a beat icon, and he went on to publish 12 more novels and num ...more

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Jack Kerouac’s books

Average rating: 3.7 · 715,906 ratings · 35,428 reviews · 358 distinct works • Similar authors

	On the Road 3.61 avg rating — 429,526 ratings — published 1957 — 620 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dharma Bums 3.93 avg rating — 98,273 ratings — published 1958 — 223 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Big Sur 3.84 avg rating — 36,467 ratings — published 1962 — 175 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Subterraneans 3.65 avg rating — 16,233 ratings — published 1958 — 141 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac, Joshua Kupetz (Introduction), George Mouratidis (Introduction) 4.12 avg rating — 13,101 ratings — published 1957 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Desolation Angels 3.93 avg rating — 11,945 ratings — published 1958 — 103 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lonesome Traveler 3.75 avg rating — 7,842 ratings — published 1960 — 107 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tristessa by Jack Kerouac, Aram Saroyan (Foreword) 3.66 avg rating — 6,568 ratings — published 1960 — 78 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings by Jack Kerouac, Paul Marion (Editor) 3.59 avg rating — 6,255 ratings — published 1999 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maggie Cassidy 3.59 avg rating — 5,301 ratings — published 1959 — 81 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Kerouac Selected Letters (2 books)
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April 2016 New School Classic Group Read

1927, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, 209 pages

32 votes, 18.0%

1966, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 407 pages

28 votes, 15.7%

1973, Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, 302 pages

18 votes, 10.1%

1961, Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, 346 pages

17 votes, 9.6%

1969, The Godfather by Mario Puzo, 448 pages

13 votes, 7.3%

1905, Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster, 147 pages

11 votes, 6.2%

1963, The Clocks by Agatha Christie, 381 pages

10 votes, 5.6%

1961, Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, 528 pages

10 votes, 5.6%

1962, The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, 259 pages

9 votes, 5.1%

1994, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, 607 pages

9 votes, 5.1%

1900, Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, 455 pages

6 votes, 3.4%

1937, Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato, 256 pages

4 votes, 2.2%

1957, The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, 220 pages

4 votes, 2.2%

1969, them by Joyce Carol Oates, 576 pages

3 votes, 1.7%

1962, Big Sur by Jack Kerouac, 256 pages

3 votes, 1.7%

1957, The Door Into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein, 304 pages

1 vote, 0.6%

1929, Cimarron by Edna Ferber, 400 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

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