Jack Kerouac Collection, 1949-1982.

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Jack Kerouac Collection, 1949-1982.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122492186

The small Jack Kerouac Collection, 1948-1982, is composed of galley proofs for Desolation Angel and Excerpts from Visions of Cody, as well as page proofs of Excerpts, and a typescript of "Two Space Poems." In addition there is a notebook journal written by Kerouac while preparing to write On the Road. There are also three letters from Kerouac and two letters from friends of Kerouac to third-parties.

1 box (.42 linear feet), 3 galley folders, 65 audio tapes.

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

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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...