Creative Writing
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Biography: JACK KEROUAC |
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Jack Kerouac Jack Kerouac was an American author, poet and painter. He is considered an important and influential writer who inspired others. Jack Kerouac whose real name is Jean Luis Kerouac was born in Lowell Massachusetts to French Canadian parents on March 12, 1922. In Kerouac’s early career he tended to write constantly, carrying a notebook with him everywhere. The letter he would write to his friends and family tended to be long and rambling. The letters would include great detail about his daily life and thoughts. Kerouac tried a varied list of careers. He was a sports reporter for The Lowell Sun; he also worked as a temporary worker in construction and food service; he was also an United States Merchant Marine and he joined the United States Navy twice. Jack Kerouac published a book in 1950 named The Town in the City. The book sold poorly but he gained a lot of popularity and good reviews. Later on he publish many other books such as the beat Generation and Gone on the Road. The book was largely autobiographical and describes Kerouac's road-trip adventures across the United States and Mexico. Many of his books exemplified this approach including On the Road, Visions of Cody , Visions of Gerard, Big Sur, and The Subterranean The central features of this writing method were the ideas of breath, improvising words over the inherent structures of mind and language, and not editing a single word, much of his work was edited by Donald Merriam Allen, a major figure in Beat Generation poetry who also edited some of Ginsberg's work as well. Kerouac died on October 21, 1969 at St. Anthony's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida, one day after being rushed with severe abdominal pain from his St. Petersburg home by ambulance. At the age of 47, resulted from an internal hemorrhage (bleeding esophageal varices) caused by cirrhosis, the result of a lifetime of heavy drinking. At the time of his death, he was living with his third wife Stella, and his mother Gabrielle. Kerouac is buried in his home town of Lowell and was honored posthumously with a Doctor of Letters degree from his hometown's University of Massachusetts Lowell on June 2, 2007. |
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