Jack Kerouac

Born: 12 March 1922 in Lowell, Massachusettes, USA. Died: 21 October 1969 in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA. The American writer and poet Jack Kerouac, né Jean Louis Kerouac, became the leading chronicler of the beat generation, a term that he coined to label a social and literary movement in the 1950's. After studying briefly at Columbia University, he achieved fame with his spontaneous and unconventional prose,…