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Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) - original name Jean-Luis Lebris de Kerouac American novelist and poet, leading figure and spokesman of the Beat Generation. Kerouac's search for spiritual liberation produced his best known work, the autobiographical novel ON THE ROAD (1957). The first beat novel was based on Kerouac's travels across America with his friend Neal Cassidy. Its importance was compared to Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises, generally seen as the testament of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. "I stuck my head out of the window and took deep breaths of the fragrant air.... more
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