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" ...

NEW YORK - Fifty years ago American author Jack Kerouac sat at a typewriter and pounded out in 20 days, on one long continuous scroll, On the Road, a book that became the Beat Generation's anthem and ...

CANNES, France - Fifty-five years after its publication, Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" is finally burning on the big screen. Everyone from Marlon Brando to Jean-Luc Godard to Brad Pitt has circled the ...

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

Ebs Burnough, the director behind a new documentary that covers Jack Kerouac's life and the impact of his 1957 novel On the Road decades later, tells PEOPLE that the author had an "outsider's feeling ...

Back in the early ’60s, a 16-year-old high school senior sat across from an admissions official at Princeton University. Glancing briefly at the student’s erratic academic record, he asked what field ...

Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" was a big inspiration for John Devine. The philosophy major who packed his bag the week after graduating from Alfred University and hitchhiked to California. For Michael ...

Jack Kerouac would've turned 85 this year had he not succumbed to alcohol in 1969. He was 47 when he died, sad and bitter, archly conservative, living with his mother and befuddled by the lost ...

Filmmaker Ebs Burnough's new documentary 'Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation' is in theaters now Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel On the Road is widely regarded as a 20th century American classic, but the ...