Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month
Jack Kerouac

more photos (2)

Jack Kerouac’s Followers (10,744)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo

Add New
Videos

En 1959, Jack Kerouac parle de littérature et de la «Beat Generation»
Add a comment
Beautiful books worth treasuring - The Folio Society
Add a comment

More videos…

Jack Kerouac


Born
in Lowell, Massachusetts, The United States
March 12, 1922

Died
October 21, 1969

Website

Genre
Fiction, Poetry, Travel

Influences
Neal Cassady, Thomas Wolfe, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Jean Genet, Henry ...more


Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
Of French-Canadian ancestry, Kerouac was raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts. He "learned English at age six and spoke with a marked accent into his late teens." During World War II, he served in the United States Merchant Marine; he completed his first novel at the time, which was published more than 40 years after his death. His first published book was The Town and the City (1950), and he achieved widespread fame and notoriety with his second, On the Road, in 1957. It made him a beat icon, and he went on to publish 12 more novels and num ...more

Combine Editions

Average rating: 3.7 · 700,514 ratings · 34,227 reviews · 346 distinct works • Similar authors
On the Road
3.61 avg rating — 419,601 ratings — published 1957 — 610 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
The Dharma Bums
3.93 avg rating — 96,144 ratings — published 1958 — 219 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Big Sur
3.84 avg rating — 35,589 ratings — published 1962 — 178 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
The Subterraneans
3.66 avg rating — 15,890 ratings — published 1958 — 144 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
On the Road: The Original S...
by
4.12 avg rating — 12,891 ratings — published 1957 — 56 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Desolation Angels
3.93 avg rating — 11,780 ratings — published 1958 — 104 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Lonesome Traveler
3.75 avg rating — 7,674 ratings — published 1960 — 107 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Tristessa
by
3.66 avg rating — 6,421 ratings — published 1960 — 18 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Atop an Underwood: Early St...
by
3.58 avg rating — 6,254 ratings — published 1999 — 18 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Maggie Cassidy
3.59 avg rating — 5,219 ratings — published 1959 — 86 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
More books by Jack Kerouac…

Series by Jack Kerouac

Atop an Underwood: Early St... Visions of Gerard Dr. Sax The Town and the City Maggie Cassidy Vanity of Duluoz: An Advent... On the Road
(14 books)
by
3.68 avg rating — 615,605 ratings

Selected Letters, 1940-1956 Selected Letters, 1957-1969
(2 books)
by
4.16 avg rating — 1,199 ratings

Related News

  Summer has arrived in the northern hemisphere. For those of us with nomadic hearts, it’s time to consider that most American of rituals:...
Read more...
56 likes · 9 comments
When author Amor Towles published his second novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, in 2016, everything changed.   Towles’ first novel, Rules of...
Read more...
67 likes · 8 comments
Quotes by Jack Kerouac  (?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad
11447 likes
Like

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
tags: dharma, simplicity, writing
8413 likes
Like

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac
5646 likes
Like

Polls

More...

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics posts views last activity  
The Seasonal Read...: Polls Are Up Go Vote!!! 173 441 Nov 12, 2009 08:11PM  
Challenge: 50 Books: Faye's 2009 List - Now 106% Complete 47 331 Nov 28, 2009 07:37AM  
Challenge: 50 Books: Tim's 50 books for 2009 19 505 Dec 30, 2009 05:53PM  
The Seasonal Read...: This topic has been closed to new comments. 30.6 (Donna Jo's Task - As Suggested By Liz Brooklyn - Character References) 115 397 May 11, 2010 02:21PM  
College Students! : Lori's Challenge 3 45 Jul 02, 2010 07:22AM  
The Next Best Boo...: top ten favorite books as of today 104 708 Jul 24, 2010 03:52PM  
The Book Challenge: Meghan's 2009 Book Challenge 84 237 Sep 28, 2010 01:39AM  
Challenge: 50 Books: Yoli's 50 books for July 2010-July 2011 3 19 Sep 29, 2010 08:30AM