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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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	On the Road 3.61 avg rating — 453,199 ratings — published 1957 — 654 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 — 102,550 ratings — published 1958 — 234 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 — 38,370 ratings — published 1962 — 178 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 — 17,014 ratings — published 1958 — 158 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 — 13,819 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 by Jack Kerouac, Joyce Johnson (Introduction) 3.93 avg rating — 12,379 ratings — published 1958 — 111 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 — 8,227 ratings — published 1960 — 112 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 — 7,113 ratings — published 1960 — 82 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 — 6,287 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 — 5,511 ratings — published 1959 — 81 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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1958, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, 209 pages

10 votes, 18.5%

1973, Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, 302 pages

9 votes, 16.7%

1957, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 304 pages

7 votes, 13.0%

1934, Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, 322 pages

6 votes, 11.1%

1997, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, 321 pages

5 votes, 9.3%

1956, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, 159 pages

5 votes, 9.3%

1905, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, 351 pages

4 votes, 7.4%

1921, The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer, 274 pages

2 votes, 3.7%

1981, The Wave by Morton Rhue, 138 pages

2 votes, 3.7%

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

2 votes, 3.7%

1927, Ashenden by W. Somerset Maugham, 326 pages

1 vote, 1.9%

1969, Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene, 254 pages

1 vote, 1.9%

1955, Requiem for a Wren by Nevil Shute, 285 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

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