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Jack Kerouac

Born

in Lowell, Massachusetts, The United States

March 12, 1922

Died

October 21, 1969

Website

https://jackkerouac.com/

Genre

Fiction, Poetry, Travel

Influences

Neal Cassady, Thomas Wolfe, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Jean Genet, Henry ...more

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Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
Of French-Canadian ancestry, Kerouac was raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts. He "learned English at age six and spoke with a marked accent into his late teens." During World War II, he served in the United States Merchant Marine; he completed his first novel at the time, which was published more than 40 years after his death. His first published book was The Town and the City (1950), and he achieved widespread fame and notoriety with his second, On the Road, in 1957. It made him a beat icon, and he went on to publish 12 more novels and num ...more

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Jack Kerouac’s books

Average rating: 3.7 · 704,955 ratings · 34,573 reviews · 351 distinct works • Similar authors

	On the Road 3.61 avg rating — 422,419 ratings — published 1957 — 610 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dharma Bums 3.93 avg rating — 96,848 ratings — published 1958 — 217 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Big Sur 3.84 avg rating — 35,852 ratings — published 1962 — 174 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Subterraneans 3.66 avg rating — 15,984 ratings — published 1958 — 140 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac, Joshua Kupetz (Introduction), George Mouratidis (Introduction) 4.12 avg rating — 12,954 ratings — published 1957 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Desolation Angels 3.93 avg rating — 11,831 ratings — published 1958 — 103 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lonesome Traveler 3.75 avg rating — 7,724 ratings — published 1960 — 106 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tristessa by Jack Kerouac, Aram Saroyan (Foreword) 3.65 avg rating — 6,473 ratings — published 1960 — 78 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings by Jack Kerouac, Paul Marion (Editor) 3.59 avg rating — 6,261 ratings — published 1999 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maggie Cassidy 3.59 avg rating — 5,241 ratings — published 1959 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Kerouac Selected Letters (2 books)
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The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie, 1942, 191 pages

63 votes, 26.8%

On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 1957, 293 pages

49 votes, 20.9%

Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann, 1966, 448 pages

37 votes, 15.7%

The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham, 191, 187 pages

31 votes, 13.2%

The Door by Magda Szabó, 1987, 262 pages

29 votes, 12.3%

The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner, 1943, 563 pages

16 votes, 6.8%

The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf, 1928, 395 pages

10 votes, 4.3%

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