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JACK KEROUAC - GEBRAUCHT ON THE ROAD (PENGUIN M...

Jack Kerouac (1922 ¿ 1969) was an American novelist  poet  artist and part of the Beat
Generation. Most of his life was spent in the vast landscapes of America or living with his
mother  with whom he spent most of his life. Kerouac's best known works are On the Road and The
Dharma Bums.   Ann Charters  professor of English at the University of Connecticut  has been
interested in Beat writers since 1956  when as an undergraduate English major she attended the
repeat performance of the Six Gallery poetry reading in Berkeley where Allen Ginsberg gave his
sencond public reading of Howl . After his death she wrote the first Kerouac biography and
edited his posthumous collection  Scattered Poems . She was the general editor of the
two-volume encyclopaedia The Beats: Literary Bohemians In Postwar America and has published a
collection of her photographic portraits of well-known writers in the book Beats & Company .

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