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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 ...

A Jack Kerouac biographer claims he has not been properly acknowledged. June 6, 2007 — -- The 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's generation-defining novel "On the Road" is approaching, but among ...

Maher, who teaches high school English in Jack Kerouac's hometown of Lowell, Mass., and is former editor of the Kerouac Quarterly, aggressively upholds the local hero's literary and personal ...

Every two years the Beat Studies Association puts on its regular conference, typically at a location like a four-year-university in New York City or San Francisco. On Nov. 3-4, Harper College will ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." 2022 marks the centenary of Jack Kerouac's birth. I was 16 when I read On the Road, and it changed my ...

Tales of the open road — filled with the neon glow of highway diner lights and the gaggle of characters you meet along the way — usually prove to be instant page-turners. Journeys that take place on ...

This coming Oct. 9-13 Lowell Celebrates Kerouac (LCK) will present our 37th Annual Jack Kerouac Festival. The first one was held in the summer of 1988 with the Dedication of the Jack Kerouac ...

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, ...