Though bright, athletic, and motivated to do well in school, according to the Harry Ransom Center at the University ... student at Columbia College, Chase’s friends included Jack Kerouac and ...

Just a few months before I met Kerouac, my boss at the agency had given me the task of clearing her shelves of books by former clients. One book destined for the Salvation Army pile was Jack's ...

In Jack Kerouac’s last piece of writing ... NYPD’s rumored mistreatment of a black vet. Kerouac, as an on-again, off-again student at Columbia and resident of New York City in the early ...