Letter to Marshall Bean [manuscript], 1965 December 7.

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Letter to Marshall Bean [manuscript], 1965 December 7.

Kerouac's letter is apparently written in reply to a request for a photograph. Kerouac indicates that he works alone and has no secretary to send photographs or to answer such requests. He stresses that the organized loner is a better creative writer.

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University of Virginia. Library

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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...

Bean, Marshall

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