Jack Kerouac died on Oct. 21, 1969. He wrote "On the Road" in 1957, the year I was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, a city of red brick and gray granite and slush and limited opportunities. He was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Intrepid explorers will swear by these Jack Kerouac travel quotes. Jack Kerouac is best known for his novel "On the Road," a work ...

NEW YORK (AP) — In the spring of 1951, the muse landed so hard in the caffeinated mind of Jack Kerouac that within three weeks he had hurried out a full-length, single-spaced manuscript — a draft for ...

What a difference a few decades make. I read with considerable interest the Library of America’s announcement of their publication of the second volume of Jack Kerouac’s oeuvre in March 2015, one that ...

Unpublished in North America for nearly 70 years, Kerouac’s first novel, written when he was 21, offers a tantalizing glimpse of the themes and characters that were to become his obsessions. During ...

Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac, who died 45 years ago today at the age of 47, remains an intriguing figure in popular culture. For example, he's been the subject of -- or a peripheral character ...

LOWELL, Massachusetts­ — Jack Kerouac, the man who unwillingly named a generational sensibility and wrote an American classic, died on Tuesday, October 21. He was buried here on Friday, October 24, ...

I have a distinct memory of flipping through the pages of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road (1957) when I was around 16 years old. I was on the metro in Paris. I had heard about Kerouac from my sister and ...

Author Jack Kerouac (inset) was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, 100 years ago this month. Denis Tangney Jr, via Getty Images Here’s a reason to get on the road. It was 100 years ago this week that Beat ...