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26 unusual facts about Jack Kerouac


André Deutsch

His small but influential publishing house ran until the 1980s, and included books by Jack Kerouac, Earl Lovelace, Norman Mailer, George Mikes, V. S. Naipaul, Ogden Nash, Andrew Robinson, Philip Roth, Art Spiegelman, John Updike, Margaret Atwood, Charles Gidley Wheeler and Helene Hanff, and is now an imprint of Carlton Publishing Group.

Andrzej Stasiuk

Stasiuk himself cites Marek Hłasko as a major influence; critics have compared his style of stream of consciousness travel literature to that of Jack Kerouac.

Arnold Fishkind

Fishkind became well known enough during this time to be mentioned by Jack Kerouac in his novel Visions of Cody.

Azathoth

Nick Mamatas's 2004 novel Move Under Ground, set in a world where Cthulhu has taken power and only the Beats oppose him, the power of the Great Old Ones twists the constellations into new shapes, using them as vessels for his surrogates; among them, Jack Kerouac observes the "red stars of Azathoth".

Beatrice Kozera

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

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

Bridgeport, California

Bridgeport plays a small role in the novel The Dharma Bums (1958) by Jack Kerouac; it is the place from where the main characters Ray Smith, Japhy Ryder and Henry Morley start their climb to the nearby Matterhorn Peak.

Clint, Texas

Clint was mentioned in the 1957 autobiographical novel On the Road by American novelist Jack Kerouac as the mailing address of XELO, a radio station based in Ciudad Juárez.

Edie Parker

Edie Kerouac-Parker (1922–1993) was the first wife of Jack Kerouac, and the author of the memoir You'll Be Okay, about her life with Kerouac and the early days of the Beat Generation.

Frank Leahy

At Boston College, he tried relentlessly to recruit future beat author Jack Kerouac.

History of scrolls

One of the few modern texts the original of which was written on what is effectively a scroll is the manuscript of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, typed onto what he called "the scroll", made of taped-together sheets of paper.

Inger Lorre

Lorre's vocals are featured on "Angel Mine" while Jeff played guitar, sitar, and mouth sax on the track, released on the Jack Kerouac tribute album Kicks Joy Darkness.

John Tytell

John Tytell (born May 17, 1939) is an American writer and academic, whose works on such literary figures as Jack Kerouac, Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, Henry Miller, and William S. Burroughs, have made him both a leading scholar of the Beat Generation, and a respected name in literature in general.

John Ventimiglia

In August, 2007, Ventimiglia and the David Amram quartet presented a musical and oral homage to sociologist C. Wright Mills and beat author Jack Kerouac.

M. Brendan Fleming

When the Lowell city council voted to create a park in honor of Jack Kerouac, Fleming voted against naming the park after Kerouac.

Marie-Victorin Kirouac

He was also a relative of the noted American writer, Jack Kerouac.

Marin City, California

Jack Kerouac stayed in Marin City and nearby Mill Valley during his travels in the 1940s and 1950s.

Peter Bakowski

His early works, including his first book Thunder Road, Thunder Heart (1988), show the influence of American Beat writers such as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski.

Peter Daltrey

In 2009, Link Bekka collaborated with the saxophonist, Derek G Head for the album, Jacks Town an appreciation of the work of Jack Kerouac.

Peter Laugesen

Peter Laugesen has a humble, anarchistic approach to writing practice, with deep roots in Beat poetry, inspired by writers like Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs: the beautiful and the ugly cannot be separated but are interdependent.

Poets' Walk Park

The park has been visited by Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790–1867) and many literary contemporaries, including Washington Irving (1783–1859) and William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) and Jack Kerouac (1922-1969).

Richard G. Stern

The "beat edition" of the Review was to include excerpts from Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs, and a few Jack Kerouac stories.

Rooster Run

Rooster Run is a famous country store halfway between Bardstown and Clermont in Nelson County, Kentucky It is world famous for its caps, where tourists for decades have bought, thanks to Jack Kerouac.

Sal Paradise

Salvatore “Sal” Paradise is the narrator and the protagonist in Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road.

Steamboats of the Mississippi

Jack Kerouac noted in On the Road seeing many derelict steamers on the River at this time.

Warby Parker

The name “Warby Parker” derives from two characters that appear in a journal by the Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac.


Adele Morales

Morales was descended from a Spanish mother and Native Peruvian father; she grew up in Bensonhurst but moved to Manhattan, where she studied painting with Hans Hofmann and took up a Bohemian lifestyle, being involved for several years with Edwin Fancher (who together with Mailer and Dan Wolf founded The Village Voice) and briefly with Jack Kerouac.

Boys and Girls in America

The album title is a line taken from the opening lines of the song "Stuck Between Stations" ("There are nights when I think that Sal Paradise was right/Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together"), which in turn refers to a quote from American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel On the Road and its narrator, Sal Paradise.

Éditions Denoël

Among the most famous authors published by Éditions Denoël are Sébastien Japrisot, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Jeanne Benameur, and Bertrand Latour.

Ellis Amburn

During his career, Amburn was an editor for authors such John le Carré, Belva Plain, Muriel Spark, Joshua Logan and for Jack Kerouac, who would be the subject of Amburn's 1998 book on which Leonardo DiCaprio has optioned film rights.

Gia-Fu Feng

Gia-Fu Feng (1919–1985) was prominent as both an English translator (with his wife, Jane English) of Taoist classics and a Taoist teacher in the United States, associated with Alan Watts, Jack Kerouac, The Beats and Abraham Maslow.

Loren Cass

The story follows three central characters (Nicole, Jason and Cale) and several secondary ones (The Suicide Kid, The Punk Kid, and The Fight Kid, among others) through the aftermath of the '96 riots, and features several notable St. Petersburg landmarks including the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, the St. Petersburg Pier, St. Petersburg High School and the house where Jack Kerouac lived prior to his death in 1969.

Michael J T Morrissey

His 80 plus published short stories vary from neo-social realism to surreal and postmodern styles and also deploy the introduction of famous personalities into the New Zealand landscape such as Jack Kerouac, Charles Fort, Andy Warhol and Franz Kafka.

Min and Bill

Jack Kerouac, in On the Road, has his protagonist-narrator Sal Paradise compare Dean Moriarity and his second wife Camille to Min and Bill.

Minor Characters

Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (1987) is a memoir by Joyce Johnson documenting her time and affair with Jack Kerouac providing a very intimate biography of sorts for the man, along with commentary on Allen Ginsberg, among others.

Quebec diaspora

Noteworthy among those whose parents settled in the United States are writer Jack Kerouac, politician Mike Gravel, singers Rudy Vallée and Robert Goulet, Emil Beaulieau, historian Will Durant and many more.

South Village

These South Village establishments were frequented by some of the most significant players in these cultural movements, including Bob Dylan, Jack Kerouac, James Agee, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sam Shepard and Jackson Pollock.

Stretch That Skull Cover and Smile

The Title is taken from a quote by Jack Kerouac from his novel/biography of Neal Cassady - 'Visions of Cody', which goes as such "A face only covers a skull for awhile, so stretch that skull cover and smile".

The Adding Machine: Collected Essays

Topics include discussions about colleagues such as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, as well as essays on other writers who influenced Burroughs such as Ernest Hemingway, Joseph Conrad and Samuel Beckett.

Ulf Lundell

Lundell was influenced by musicians such as Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young and writers such as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and other beats.

Uncle Sam's New York

Drink where the Beat Generation poets like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg got their start, experience one of New York City’s classic dive bars with an original jukebox, and live rock history on world famous Bleecker Street.

Vesuvio Cafe

The bar was founded in 1948 by Henri Lenoir, and was frequented by a number of Beat Generation celebrities including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Neal Cassady, as well as other notable cultural figures such as Dylan Thomas, Bob Dylan and Francis Ford Coppola.