Jack Kerouac(1922-1969), the central figure of the Beat Generation,
was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922 and died in St.
Petersburg, Florida, in 1969. Among his many novels are On the
Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and Visions of Cody.
Ann Charters is the editor of The Portable Sixties Reader, The
Portable Jack Kerouac, two volumes of Jack Kerouac's Selected
Letters, and Beat Down to Your Soul. She teaches at the University
of Connecticut.
"The most exhilirating book of the year."
Chicago Tribune"As we just now begin to map full the fallout of
[the Beat Generation's] creative explosion, these letters offer an
invaluable blueprint to the intricate, high-yield ballistics that
went into creating it."
San Francisco Examiner"The greatest addition to the Kerouac canon
in recent years"
Steven Moore, Review of contemporary Fiction"To have [his letters]
gathered in one place . . . is to be overwhelmed by his passion for
the printed word, by his hunger for experience and by his ability
to describe both in language that sings. . . . The most
exhilirating book of the year."
Thomas McGonigle, Chicago Tribune
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