Jack Kerouac is best known for his novel “On the Road,” a work of fiction heavily influenced by his real life road trips and adventures. Kerouac wasn’t just a talented writer, but a talented sportsman ...

When Jack Kerouac’s On The Road appeared in 1957, it changed not only the idea of the classic American novel, but the whole notion of what a novel could be, and it did it in such an entertaining and ...

We're ears- and eyeballs-deep in Summer of Love 40th anniversaries in San Francisco, but September marks another local birthday of import, one that's also pretty pivotal in the music world. We're ...

In 1958, Jack Kerouac, author of On The Road and other novels and books of poetry, wrote “Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials.” It started in a letter to Don Allen, and was ...

For the March, 1979 issue of High Times, William Burroughs provided a historic memoir of America’s greatest existentialist, Jack Kerouac. In honor of the anniversary of Kerouac’s death October 21, ...

Filmmaker Ebs Burnough's new documentary 'Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation' is in theaters now Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel On the Road is widely regarded as a 20th century American classic, but the ...

Jack Kerouac's ex-girlfriend, the author Joyce Johnson, tells PEOPLE that the intense public reaction to Kerouac's 1957 novel On the Road made him feel he "was under a tremendous attack all the time" ...

Jack Kerouac is best known for his novel “On the Road,” a work of fiction heavily influenced by his real life road trips and adventures. Kerouac wasn’t just a talented writer, but a talented sportsman ...

Joyce Johnson, an author who dated Jack Kerouac in the 1950s, speaks with PEOPLE about the new documentary 'Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation' Jack Kerouac's ex-girlfriend is recalling how the ...