When you think of the Beat Generation, you think of Jack Kerouac—and behind his writing, you’ll almost always find jazz.

In 1958, Jack Kerouac, author of On The Road and other novels and books of poetry, wrote “Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials.” It started in a letter to Don Allen, and was ...

"It's just having the courage to be vulnerable. It's also a revelatory process of writing. It’s self-revealing to a degree." ...

When Jack Kerouac’s On The Road appeared in 1957, it changed not only the idea of the classic American novel, but the whole notion of what a novel could be, and it did it in such an entertaining and ...

LOWELL — The Jack Kerouac Estate and the Kerouac @ 100 Committee has announced the lineup of events for the writer’s centennial celebration starting in March. The celebration of the Beat Generation ...

Jack Kerouac's ex-girlfriend, the author Joyce Johnson, tells PEOPLE that the intense public reaction to Kerouac's 1957 novel On the Road made him feel he "was under a tremendous attack all the time" ...

Six years after Kerouac’s death, in 1975, a then-34-year-old Bob Dylan visited Kerouac’s grave in the same windswept season of the year. Dylan was in town with his Rolling Thunder Revue, a kind of ...