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Jack Kerouac, Novelist, Dead; Father of the Beat Generation October 22, 1969 By JOSEPH LELYVELD Jack Kerouac, Novelist, Dead; Father of the Beat Generation Author of On the Road was Hero to Youth--Rejected Middle-Class Values ack Kerouac, the novelist who named the Beat Generation and exuberantly celebrated its reject

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Jack Kerouac - bio and links Jack Kerouac Born: March 12, 1922 Place of Birth: Lowell, Massachusetts Died: October 21, 1969 Place of Death: St. Petersburg, Florida   Texts from Levi Asher - Literary Kicks Excerpted by permission of copyright holder Jack Kerouac was born Jean-Louis Kerouac, a French-Canadian child

Jack Kerouac ( or , born Jean-Louis Lebris de March October was an American novelist and poet. 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 topic