On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s undergroundAmerica, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with SalParadise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, theliving epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, itsAmerican Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than ScottFitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset withunforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographicalpassion.
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Jack Kerouac (1922 – 1969) was an American novelist,poet, artist and part of the Beat Generation. Most of his life wasspent in the vast landscapes of America or living with his mother,with whom he spent most of his life. Kerouac's best known works areOn the Road and The Dharma Bums. Ann Charters, professor of Englishat the University of Connecticut, has been interested in Beatwriters since 1956, when as an undergraduate English major sheattended the repeat performance of the Six Gallery poetry readingin Berkeley where Allen Ginsberg gave his sencond public reading ofHowl. After his death she wrote the first Kerouac biography andedited his posthumous collection, Scattered Poems. She was thegeneral editor of the two-volume encyclopaedia The Beats: LiteraryBohemians In Postwar America and has published a collection of herphotographic portraits of well-known writers in the book Beats& Company.
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