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Jack Kerouac (1922 – 1969)
Nationality: American | Periods: American: 20th Century |
Beat generation writer; wrote On the Road and Dharma Bums
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Criticism about Jack Kerouac
- Jack Kerouac Character Alias Key
- http://www.litkicks.com/Lists/KerouacNames.html
- This site lists the people who were probably the inspiration for the charaters in Kerouac’s novels.
- Contains: Commentary
- Keywords:
- The Writings of Jack Kerouac
- http://www.litkicks.com/Lists/KerouacWorks.html
- This site links to many plot summaries of Jack Kerouac’s novels.
- Contains: Commentary, Pictures, Works List
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Biographical sites about Jack Kerouac
- The Agonized Cock of the Matter
- http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/a/amburn-kerouac.html
- This excerpt from the first chapter of a biography on Kerouac discusses the author’s childhood and adolescence.
- Contains: Extensive Bio
- Author: Ellis Amburn
- From: Subterranean Kerouac: The Hidden Life of Jack Kerouac chapter 1; St. Martin’s Press: 1998
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- The Chronology
- http://www.clark.net/pub/cosmic/jkchrono.html#chrono
- This site provides a detailed chronology of Jack Kerouac’s life.
- Contains: Timeline
- Keywords: life, history, biography
- Jack Kerouac
- http://www.litkicks.com/People/JackKerouac.html
- “Jack Kerouac was born Jean-Louis Kerouac, a French-Canadian child in working-class Lowell, Massachusetts. Ti Jean spoke a local dialect of French called joual before he learned English. The youngest of three children, he was heartbroken when his older brother Gerard died of rheumatic fever at the age of nine. “
- Contains: Full Bio, Pictures
- Keywords: life, history, biography
- Jack Kerouac and the “Beat Generation”
- http://www.virgin.fr/virgin/html/us/nostalgia/route66/beat_generation.html
- This site provides a biographical background for Jack Kerouac.
- Contains: Full Bio, Sketch
- Keywords:
- Lowell
- http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/miles-kerouac.html
- This first chapter from a biography on Kerouac discusses the author’s childhood.
- Contains: Extensive Bio
- Author: Barry Miles
- From: Jack Kerouac, King of the Beats: A Portrait Chapter 1; Alfred A. Knopf: 1998
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Other sites about Jack Kerouac
- Belief and Technique for Modern Prose
- http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/kerouac-technique.html
- The first two tips given by Kerouac are “1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy 2. Submissive to everything, open, listening.”
- Contains: Interview
- Author: Jack Kerouac
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- Essentials of Spontaneous Prose
- http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/kerouac-spontaneous.html
- This site contains a “how-to guide” written by Jack Kerouac on spontaneous prose.
- Contains: Interview
- Author: Jack Kerouac
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- Sounds of Jack Kerouac reading (and singing) his prose
- http://www-hsc.usc.edu/~gallaher/k_speaks/kerouacspeaks.html
- This site allows you to hear Jack Kerouac reading from his own works.
- Contains: Interview
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- Writings about Jack Kerouac
- http://www.litkicks.com/Biblio/KerouacBiblio.html
- This site contains an extensive bibliography of publications about Jack Kerouac and his works.
- Contains: Bibliography, Commentary
- Keywords:
- Writings About Jack Kerouac
- http://www.litkicks.com/Biblio/KerouacBiblio.html
- “A bibliography specific to Jack Kerouac, containing entries concerning Kerouac’s writing, recordings and life.” Fairly extensive. Includes biographical and critical works.
- Contains: Bibliography
- Author: Sherri Hoffman-Hoye
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Last Updated Apr 29, 2013