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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 · 739,764 ratings · 38,163 reviews · 478 distinct works • Similar authors

	On the Road 3.61 avg rating — 445,119 ratings — published 1957 — 9 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 — 100,999 ratings — published 1958 — 233 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 — 37,663 ratings — published 1962 — 5 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 3.65 avg rating — 16,742 ratings — published 1958 — 35 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) 4.11 avg rating — 13,581 ratings — published 1957 — 58 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 — 12,233 ratings — published 1958 — 109 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 — 8,081 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 — 6,894 ratings — published 1960 — 80 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) 3.58 avg rating — 6,289 ratings — published 1999 — 19 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 — 5,456 ratings — published 1959 — 80 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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January 2018 New School Poll

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, 468 pages, 1996

68 votes, 19.5%

Dubliners by James Joyce, 207 pages, 1914

39 votes, 11.2%

On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 307 pages, 1957

29 votes, 8.3%

Casino Royale by Ian Fleming, 181 pages, 1953

24 votes, 6.9%

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, 127 pages, 1923

23 votes, 6.6%

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, 416 pages, 1980

22 votes, 6.3%

The Wreath (book one of Kristin Lavransdatter) by Sigrid Undset, 305 pages, 1920

17 votes, 4.9%

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, 368 pages, 1940

16 votes, 4.6%

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, 468 pages, 1913

16 votes, 4.6%

Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières, 437 pages, 1994

15 votes, 4.3%

The Sea Wolf by Jack London, 425 pages, 1904

13 votes, 3.7%

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 104 pages, 1941

12 votes, 3.4%

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 182 pages, 1962

12 votes, 3.4%

Light in August by William Faulkner, 507 pages, 1932

11 votes, 3.2%

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy, 337 pages, 1985

10 votes, 2.9%

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay, 189 pages, 1967

9 votes, 2.6%

Peyton Place by Grace Metalious, 384 pages, 1956

7 votes, 2.0%

The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace, 134 pages, 1905

6 votes, 1.7%

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