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Jean-Louis Kerouac
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Kerouac was born on March 12, 1922 in Lowell, Mass. and died on October
21, 1969 in St. Petersburg, Fla. He was a famous American poet and novelist.
His parents were of French-Canadian origin, Kerouac learnt English as a
second language in school. He was discharged from the Navy during World
War II as a shizoid personality. Before he published his first novel (
The Town and the City, 1950), he worked at a variety of jobs that included
railroad man and forest ranger. Kerouac gave the Beat movement its name
and celebrated it against the commecial community. "On the Road", written
in three weeks, was the first product of the new style. In his novels Kerouac
searched the way to a mystic reality in sex, drugs and jazz. Many of his
books are autobiographical and most of them feature other prominent Beat
writers as characters.
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