Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell Massachusetts in 1922. Educated by Jesuit brothers in Lowell
he decided to become a writer at age seventeen and developed his own writing style which he
called 'spontaneous prose'. He used this technique to record the life of the American
'traveler' and the experiences of the Beat Generation most memorably in On the Road and also
in The Subterraneans and The Dharma Bums. His other works include Big Sur Desolation Angels
Lonesome Traveler Visions of Gerard Tristessa and a book of poetry called Mexico City Blues
. Jack Kerouac died in 1969.
