Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac Born on March 12, 1922, the youngest of three children in a French-Canadian family that had established itself in Lowell, Massachusetts, Jack Kerouac was by the era of ten already aiming to become a writer. His father ran a print shop and published a local newssheet called the Spotlight. Before long he began writing and producing his own mutation sheet, which he sold to friends and acquaintances in Lowell. He attended some(prenominal) Catholic and public instructs, and won athletic scholarships to the Horace Mann prep school (in New York) and then to Columbia University. In New York he fell in with fellow literary-icons-to-be Allen Ginsberg, the poet, and William S.

Burroughs, the novelist. A broken nog hobbled his college football career, and Kerouac quit Columbia in his sophomore year, ultimately joining the merchant marine and then Navy (from which he was discharged). Thus began the restless wandering that would characterize both his bequest and his life. To Kerouac, ?Beat? ? a ...If you want to get a spacious essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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