Full name: Kerouac: A Biography

Author: Ann Charters Year: 1973 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Non Fiction, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780312113476 0312113471

Now that Kerouac's major novel, On the Road is accepted as an American classic, academic critics are slowly beginning to catch up with his experimental literary methods and examine the dozen books comprising what he called 'the legend of Duluoz.' Nearly all of his books have been in print internationally since his death in 1969, and his writing has been discovered and enjoyed by new readers throughout the world. Kerouac's view of the promise of America, the seductive and lovely vision of the beckoning open spaces of our continent, has never been expressed better by subsequent writers, perhaps because Kerouac was our last writer to believe in America's promise--and essential innocence--as the legacy he would explore in his autobiographical fiction. Similar books: Literary Outlaw by Ted Morgan Jack's Book by Barry Gifford Jack Kerouac by Tom Clark Gentleman Junkie by Graham Caveney Jack Kerouac by Steve Turner Soldier by Karen DeYoung Anne Morrow Lindbergh by Susan Hertog Savage Art by Robert Polito Like a Fiery Elephant by Jonathan Coe Ginsberg by Barry Miles The World Is What It Is by Patrick French A Lot to Ask by Hazel Holt Simone de Beauvoir by Deirdre Bair A Tragic Honesty by Blake Bailey Simenon by Pierre Assouline Grateful American by Gary Sinise Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry Becoming Superman by J. Michael Straczynski Desert Flower by Waris Dirie The Time of My Life by Patrick Swayze