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Jack Kerouac

1922 - 1969

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His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2024). Jack Kerouac is the 417th most popular writer (up from 454th in 2024), the 508th most popular biography from United States (down from 442nd in 2019) and the 45th most popular American Writer.

Jack Kerouac is most famous for his novel On the Road, which documents a cross-country trip he took with Neal Cassady in the late 1940s.

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Among Writers

Among writers, Jack Kerouac ranks 417 out of 7,302Before him are Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Sándor Petőfi, Wu Cheng'en, James Fenimore Cooper, Henning Mankell, and Arthur de Gobineau. After him are Pietro Aretino, Paula Hitler, Ennius, John Galsworthy, Propertius, and Ian Fleming.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Jack Kerouac ranks 19Before him are Emil Zátopek, Aage Bohr, Pierre Cardin, Ava Gardner, Erich Hartmann, and Gérard Philipe. After him are Erving Goffman, Hans Georg Dehmelt, Philip Larkin, Charles M. Schulz, Christiaan Barnard, and Imre Lakatos. Among people deceased in 1969, Jack Kerouac ranks 25Before him are Jan Palach, Rocky Marciano, Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Iskander Mirza, Brian Jones, and Morihei Ueshiba. After him are Robert Taylor, Vesto Slipher, Dominique Pire, Levi Eshkol, Otto Dix, and Moïse Tshombe.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jack Kerouac ranks 508 out of NaNBefore him are John Tyler (1790), Miles Davis (1926), Theodore William Richards (1868), Gene Kelly (1912), William Howard Stein (1911), and Billie Holiday (1915). After him are Jessica Lange (1949), Katherine Johnson (1918), John Lithgow (1945), Marsha Hunt (1917), Ice Cube (1969), and Christopher Walken (1943).

Among Writers In United States

Among writers born in United States, Jack Kerouac ranks 45Before him are Margaret Mitchell (1900), Sylvia Plath (1932), Frank Herbert (1920), Susan Sontag (1933), Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809), and James Fenimore Cooper (1789). After him are Gertrude Stein (1874), Raymond Chandler (1888), Henry James (1843), Philip Roth (1933), Dan Brown (1964), and Harper Lee (1926).

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