Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian ancestry.
He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel. He became an underground celebrity and, with other beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic toward some of its politically radical elements.
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Beat generation, Beats (Persons), Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), American literature, Poetry, American Authors, Kerouac, jack, 1922-1969, Biography, Poetry (poetic works by one author), General, Correspondence, Beat Generation, Beatniks, Fiction in English, Literary collections, Literature, collections, Romans, nouvelles, Travel, Authors, correspondence, Buddhism, Fiction, general, Literature, American Haiku, AuthorsPlaces
United States, France, New York, Mexico, New England, New York (State), Big Sur, California, England, India, Lowell, MA, Massachusetts, Mexico City, Morocco, New York (N.Y.), Paris (France), San Francisco, San Francisco (Calif.), Sanfransico, mei guoPeople
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), Allen Ginsberg, Alene Lee, Budda (ca 560-480 a.C), Budda (ca 560-ca 480 a.C), Budda (ok. 560-480 p.n.e), Carolyn Cassady, Gautama Buddha, Gore Vidal, Hugo Weber (1918-1971), Jack, 1922-1969 Kerouac, Joyce Johnson (1935-), Lew Welch, Lucien Carr (1925-2005), Neal Casady, Neal Cassady, Neal Cassidy, Robert Frank, William BurroughsTime
20th century, 20e siècle, 1938-1939, 1945-, 1950, 1950s USA, 1952-1960, 1953, 1959, 20th Century, xian daiID Numbers
- OLID: OL21491A
- Amazon ID: B000APV9LY
- BookBrainz: f3ee6c1d-9563-4cf3-8309-d7cf18dc6b11
- GoodReads: 1742
- ISNI: 000000012125127X
- IMDb: nm0449616
- Library of Congress Names: n80036674
- LibraryThing: kerouacjack
- MusicBrainz: ccf81e74-b701-4277-a599-3e0942e70b53
- SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): CFIV003274
- VIAF: 27066713
- Wikidata: Q160534
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q160534
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Alternative names
- Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
- Kerouac
- John Kerouac
- KEROUAC
- Jack KEROUAC
- JACK KEROUAC
- jack kerouac
| August 15, 2025 | Edited by Tom Morris | merge authors |
| July 31, 2025 | Edited by WikidataBot | [sync_author_identifiers_with_wikidata] add wikidata remote identifiers |
| March 12, 2024 | Edited by kathrinpassig | merge authors |
| January 8, 2023 | Edited by sunrisepianomonkey | Shortened bio to remove repeated info and make it more than a WP copy; added IDs; added links |
| April 1, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | initial import |