Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac

1922 - 1969

Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet known as a pioneer of the Beat Generation. His work is heavily influenced by jazz as seen in his style of spontaneous prose. His most notable works include The Town and the City, On the Road, Doctor Sax, The Dharma Burns, Mexico City Blues, The Subterraneans, Desolation Angels, Visions of Cody, The Sea is My Brother, and Big Sur.

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Typed letter, with later holograph annotations in margins, one of them initialed ("JK"), to his...

"I have always wanted to write epics and sagas of great beauty and mystic meaning"

Typed letter, with later holograph annotations in margins, one of them initialed ("JK"), to his Lowell comrade Bill Ryan.

Ozone Park, L.I: January 10, 1943. Unmailed. "I have always wanted to write epics and sagas of great beauty and mystic meaning" An early Kerouac letter to Bill Ryan, his close friend from Lowell, Massachussets. Both were members of the "The Young Prometheans," the small circle of aspiring writers and... Read More about Typed letter, with later holograph annotations in margins, one of them initialed...

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Typed letter signed ("Jean") in pencil, to Sebastian Sampas. Jack Kerouac

"I am wasting my money and my health here at Columbia...it's been one huge debauchery ... I want to go back to the sea"

Typed letter signed ("Jean") in pencil, to Sebastian Sampas.

[n.p.]: Friday eve, November 1942. "I am wasting my money and my health here at Columbia...it's been one huge debauchery ... I want to go back to the sea" An outstanding early Kerouac letter to his closest friend from his formative years in Lowell, Mass, Sebastian Sampas, complaining about life... Read More about Typed letter signed ("Jean") in pencil, to Sebastian Sampas

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Typed Letter, signed (“Jack Kerouac”), to Irving Rosenthal of the Chicago Review. Jack Kerouac

“I’ve had visions and reassurances and all kinds of wild gnostic certainties handed to me”

Typed Letter, signed (“Jack Kerouac”), to Irving Rosenthal of the Chicago Review.

1418-1/2 Clouser St, Orlando, Fla: postmarked January 29, 1958. “I’ve had visions and reassurances and all kinds of wild gnostic certainties handed to me”. Kerouac writes in response to a letter from Irving Rosenthal of the Chicago Review (a carbon of the letter is included here), who had requested a...... Read More about Typed Letter, signed (“Jack Kerouac”), to Irving Rosenthal of the Chicago Review

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