Jack Kerouac was an American novelist, writer, poet, and artist.
While enjoying popularity but little critical success during his own lifetime, Kerouac is now considered one of America's most important authors. His spontaneous, confessional prose style inspired many other writers, including Tom Robbins, Lester Bangs, Hunter S. Thompson, and Bob Dylan.
Kerouac's best known works are On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur and Visions of Cody.
He divided most of his adult life between roaming the vast American landscape and living with his mother. Faced with a changing country, Kerouac sought to find his place, eventually rejecting the conservative values of the 1950s. His writing often reflects a desire to break free from society's structures and to find meaning in life.
This search led him to experiment with drugs and to embark on trips around the world. His books are often credited as the catalyst for the 1960s counterculture.
Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, to a family of French-Canadians.
Jack didn't start to learn English until the age of six, and at home he and his family spoke French. At an early age, he was profoundly marked by the death of his elder brother Gérard, an event that later prompted him to write the book “Visions of Gerard”.
Kerouac's athletic prowess led him to become a star on his local football team, and this achievement earned him scholarships to Boston College and Columbia University. At Columbia, he wrote several sports articles for the student newspaper, the Columbia Daily Spectator.
His football scholarship did not pan out and he went to live with an old girlfriend, Edie Parker, in New York. It was in New York that

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