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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Beats (Persons), Beat generation, Fiction, Kerouac, jack, 1922-1969, American Authors, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Poetry, Biography, Literature, collections, Beat Generation, Biographies, Bouddhisme, Correspondence, Diaries, Fiction, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Ireland, fiction, Literature, Painting, american, Écrivains américains, 1947-1954, American - General, American Drawing, American Painting, American PoetsPeople
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), Budda (ca 560-480 a.C), Budda (ca 560-ca 480 a.C), Budda (ok. 560-480 p.n.e), Carolyn Cassady, Hugo Weber (1918-1971), Robert FrankID Numbers
- OLID: OL21491A
- Amazon ID: B000APV9LY
- GoodReads: 1742
- ISNI: 000000012125127X
- LibraryThing: kerouacjack
- VIAF: 27066713
- Wikidata: Q160534
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q160534
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- Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
- Kerouac
- John Kerouac
- KEROUAC
- Jack KEROUAC
- JACK KEROUAC
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