Subterraneans - Jack Kerouac

JACK KEROUAC was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922. He won a scholarship to Columbia University, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. On the Road , published in 1957, epitomized to the world what became known as the Beat generation and made Kerouac one of the most best-known writers of his time. Publication of many other books followed, among them The Dharma Bums , The Subterraneans , and Big Sur . He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969.