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4 unusual facts about Beatrice Kozera


Beatrice Kozera

In 1947 she met Jack Kerouac in Bakersfield, California and the two began a brief relationship.

In 2012, a film version of Kerouac's book was produced by Francis Ford Coppola and directed by Walter Salles in which Kozera (as "Terry") was portrayed by Alice Braga.

She was the inspiration for the character "Terry" (or "Terry, the Mexican girl") in Jack Kerouac's 1956 novel, On the Road.

Kozera was unaware that their brief relationship had become the subject of Kerouac's novel - described as "the book that defined a generation" - until she was contacted in 2010 by author Tim Z. Hernandez.



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