JACK KEROUAC - 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN WRITER Kids Hoodie

Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac1 (/ˈkɛruæk/2, March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), often known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist3 of French-Canadian ancestry456 and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation.7 Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as his Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel. He became an underground celebrity and, with other beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic toward some of its politically radical elements.89 In 1969, at age 47, Kerouac died from an abdominal hemorrhage caused by a lifetime of heavy drinking. Since his death, Kero...