1922 - 1969
US novelist. His fast-moving, stream of
consciousness novel On The Road (1957) became the
quintessential text of the Beat Generation.
More Jack (John) Kerouac Quotes
John Clellon Holmes?and I were sitting around trying to think up the
meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent
Existentialism and I said,'You know, this is really a beat
generation'and he leapt up and said,'That's it, that's right!'
Jack (John) Kerouac
1959 Interview in Playboy, Jun.
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