The mad ones jack kerouac biography

Jack Kerouac (12 March1922 – 21 October1969), born Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, was an Americannovelist, poet, and artist.

He was a central figure among Beat Generation writers.

See also:

On the Road (1957)

The Dharma Bums (1958)

Maggie Cassidy (1959)

Quotes

• Maybe that's what life is...

  a wink of the eye and winking stars.

  • Letter to Alan Harrington (23 April 1949) published in Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 1 1940-1956 (1996)

• All of life is a foreign country.
  • Letter to John Clellon Holmes (24 June 1949), published in The Beat Vision: A Primary Sourcebook (1987) edited by Arthur Knight and Kit Knight, page 93.

• I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money.

  I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.

  • Letter to Ed White (5 July 1950) as published in The Mi