Jack Kerouac Papers 1956-1966

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Jack Kerouac Papers 1956-1966

Papers of the American poet, author. Collection includes holograph manuscript of fragment of the short story "Old Angel Midnight," and autographed copy of , and a signed typescript of Kerouac's "Statement on Poetry." Rimbaud

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Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969

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Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist of French Canadian ancestry, who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts, Kerouac learned English at age six and spoke with a marked accent into his late teens. Kerouac spent much of his youth engaged in sports and other physical activities. His athletic prowess earned him a...