The new documentary 'Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation' is in select theaters Aug. 1 Matt Dillon and Josh Brolin are among a number of celebrities paying tribute to Jack Kerouac in a new ...

JACK KEROUAC IN NORTH BEACH IN 1960. ALSO RAN: 06/29/2000 Ran on: 08-15-2009 Writer-adventurer Jack Kerouac, above, hangs out in North Beach in 1960; inset left, his daughter, Jan Kerouac, and ...

Mar. 18—LOWELL — The Scroll, a 120-foot typewritten draft of Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road," arrived Wednesday to Lowell National Historical Park where it is now displayed with photographs ...

LOWELL — Jack Kerouac’s gravesite got a new touch of life on Tuesday with the installment of a new monument marking the final resting place for the Beat generation author of On the Road. The ...

BOOK OF DREAMS Jack Kerouac, Author, Robert Creeley, Introduction by . City Lights $17.95 (339p) ISBN 978-0-87286-380-4 ...

Jack Kerouac, the son of French-Canadian immigrants, was born in Lowell in 1922. He was gifted in mind and body, a handsome football star who also obsessively composed stories, drew cartoons and ...

Jack Kerouac, author of "On the Road" was a hero to a generation of young people, would-be novelists and poets, including the Minister of Culture. Now, an Ohio novelist suggests what would have ...

“Jack Kerouac dropped by the office last night and batted out three stories while I was trying to get one paragraph right,” Fowler wrote in the June 16, 1965 edition of the Independent.

Kerouac (Jack Huston), Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) and William Burroughs are all portrayed in the drama. Sundance will also premiere the film version of Kerouac's novel Big Sur.

Jack Kerouac is big business; in 2010, one biographer estimated the value of his estate at $30 million. So Kerouac-iana can create a stir, especially previously unknown documents directly related ...