Jan Kerouac’s darker and more extreme brand of mischief make her father’s On the Road high jinks seem tame and even a tad ...

LOWELL — They came to honor Jan Kerouac, the daughter that Lowell-born Beat writer Jack Kerouac barely acknowledged. Both are long dead now — he at 47 in 1969 after a battle with the bottle, she at 44 ...

LOWELL — Notable writers, teachers and close friends of Jan Kerouac, the daughter and only child of Beat Generation legend Jack Kerouac, will gather at Edson Hall in St. Anne’s Church on Kirk Street, ...

Jan Kerouac, 44, the novelist daughter of Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation chronicler and cult hero; her “Baby Driver”(1981) dealt with her childhood in New York’s Lower East Side during the ...

Gerald Nicosia, author of "Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac" and "Home to War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans' Movement," was the literary executor of the estate of Kerouac's ...

NEW YORK — A biographer of Jack Kerouac blasted Viking Penguin on Tuesday for allegedly removing his name and all references to his work from its books about the late author as part of a vendetta ...

Amy Haders is a big fan of Kerouac. As soon as she read the first autobiographical novel, she was hooked. Haders is talking about Jan Kerouac, the only child of renowned Beat Generation author Jack ...

Editor -- Steve Silberman's review of Bill Morgan's new Allen Ginsberg biography, "I Celebrate Myself" (Nov. 5), showed a deep appreciation for the many ways Ginsberg positively changed the world of ...

Fifty years after the publication of Jack Kerouac’s Beat novel “On the Road,” a new dispute has erupted around the famously peripatetic writer. The author of a noted Kerouac biography, “Memory Babe,” ...

Gerald Nicosia, who wrote the ultimate Jack Kerouac biography, “Memory Babe” (1994), has just completed an insightful book that examines the sad final years of Kerouac’s life and the brutal fight over ...