Jack Kerouac author biography, plus links to books by Jack Kerouac.

Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac was born in Massachusetts in 1922 and attended Columbia University in New York City, where he became identified with the nascent Beat movement. This Fall, Viking are publishing Wake Up for the first time in book form, alongside a 50th anniversary edition of The Dharma Bums.

This biography was last updated on 09/18/2008.

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