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Jack Kerouac

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.

American writer (1922–1969)

Born 12 March 1922
Died 21 October 1969

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American writer (1922–1969)

Born 12 March 1922
Died 21 October 1969

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