Jack Kerouac
• Real name is Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac.
• He was born in 22th March 1922 in Massachusetts, USA and died in 21th October 1969 in Florida
• One of the most important representatives by beat generation
• He became famous mainly for his autobiographical novels.
His life
• His family was originally from France, his mother language is French.
• His father often drank alcohol, soon died.
• He was an excellent athlete in high school (athletics and american football).
• With the sport he got to Columbia University in New York City, where he exellent writing essays.
• He was in prison, than he married with Edie Parker and his second wife was Joan Haverty
• After the publication of the novel On the Road, earned lot of money and spent it for alcohol
• He died on bleeding veins at 47 years.
His work
• Poetry
• San Francisco Blues (1954)
• Mexico City Blues (1955)
• Prose
• On the Road (1948-1956)
• The Town and the City (1950)
• Doctor Sax (1959)
• Kerouac also wrote several works of travel, where he describes his experiences from his travels around the USA (for example The Dharma Bums)