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Jack Kerouac

1922 - 1969

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Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Of French-Canadian parentage, Kerouac was raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts. He "learned English at age six and spoke with a marked accent into his late teens." During World War II, he served in the United States Merchant Marine; he completed his first novel at the time, which was published more than 40 years after his death. His first published book was The Town and the City (1950), and he achieved widespread fame and notoriety with his second, On the Road, in 1957. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jack Kerouac is the 418th most popular writer (up from 454th in 2019), the 508th most popular biography from United States (down from 442nd in 2019) and the 46th 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, Jack Kerouac ranks 418 out of 7,302. Before 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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Among people born in 1922, Jack Kerouac ranks 19. Before 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 25. Before 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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Among people born in United States, Jack Kerouac ranks 508 out of 20,380. Before 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).

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Among writers born in United States, Jack Kerouac ranks 46. Before 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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